Alpine Glacier Reveals Ecosystem Impacts of Europe's Prosperity and Peril Over the Last Millennium

Alpine Glacier Reveals Ecosystem Impacts of Europe's Prosperity and Peril Over the Last Millennium

Abstract Information about past ecosystem dynamics and human activities is stored in the ice of Colle Gnifetti glacier in the Swiss Alps. Adverse climatic intervals incurred crop failures and famines and triggered reestablishment of forest vegetation but also societal resilience through innovation....

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Main Authors: S. O. Brugger, M. Schwikowski, E. Gobet, C. Schwörer, C. Rohr, M. Sigl, S. Henne, C. Pfister, T. M. Jenk, P. D. Henne, W. Tinner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-10-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
Subjects:
ice core
paleoecology
European industrialization
microfossils
vegetation history
pollen
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095039
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