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ECOMONT ecological effects of land use changes on European terrestrial mountain ecosystems / Alexander Cernusca in Pirineos. Revista de Ecología de Montaña, 147-148 (1996)

Public Citation [article]  inPirineos. Revista de Ecología de Montaña > 147-148 (1996) Titre : ECOMONT ecological effects of land use changes on European terrestrial mountain ecosystems Type de document : Imprimé Auteurs : Alexander Cernusca ; Ulrike Tappeiner ; Michael Bahn ; Neil G. Bayfield ; Claudio Chemini ; Federico Fillat ; Werner Graber ; Marc Rosset ; Rolf Siegwolf ; John Tenhunen Année de publication : 1996 Langues : Français (fre) Catégories : [CBNPMP-Thématique] Colonisation Résumé : As a contribution to the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Initiative (TERI) within Framework IV of the EU, ECOMONT aims at investigating ecological effects of land-use changes in European terrestrial mountain ecosystems. ECOMONT is coordinated by Prof Cernusca (University of Innsbruck) and is carried out by eight European partner teams in the Eastern Alps, the Swiss Alps, the Spanish Pyrennees and the Scottish Highlands. ECOMONT focuses on an analysis of structures and processes in the context of land-use changes, scaling from the leaf to the landscape level. The following research topics are being investigated: Spatial distribution of vegetation and soil in the composite experimental sites; physical and chemical soil properties, SOM status and turnover; canopy structure, primary production, and litter decomposition; water relations of ecosystems and hydrology of catchment areas; microclimate and energy budget of ecosystems; gas exchange of single plants and ecosystems; gas exchange between the composite experimental sites and the atmosphere, population and plant biology of keyspecies, plant-animal interactions, potential risks through land-use changes; GIS; remote sensing - environmental mapping; modelling activities integrating from plant to ecosystem and landscape level. First results of ECOMONT show that land-use changes have strong impacts on vegetation composition, structure and processes, on soil physics and chemistry, and therefore strongly affect exchange processes with the atmosphere and biogeochemical cycles. Abandonment of traditional agricultural practices (grazing, mowing) causes.characteristic changes of the vegetation. In most cases a successional reversion over many decades reaches its climax with the vegetation growing naturally at the sites. Sometimes, however, abandonment can also lead fo a degradation of vegetation and soil. In spite of common principles of changes of vegetation, soils and related processes with altered land-use geology, climate, exposition, slope inclination and land-use history may play an important role in determining species composition and specific patterns and processes on a community, ecosystem and landscape level in different European terrestrial mountain ecosystems. Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=154036 Cernusca, Alexander, Tappeiner, Ulrike, Bahn, Michael, Bayfield, Neil G., Chemini, Claudio, Fillat, Federico, Graber, Werner, Rosset, Marc, Siegwolf, Rolf, Tenhunen, John 1996 ECOMONT ecological effects of land use changes on European terrestrial mountain ecosystems. Pirineos. Revista de Ecología de Montaña, 147-148.

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Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps / Uta Schirpke in Ecology and society, 27 (1) (March 2022) 

Public Citation [article]  inEcology and society > 27 (1) (March 2022) . - 6 Titre : Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps Type de document : Imprimé Auteurs : Uta Schirpke ; Rocco Scolozzi ; Ulrike Tappeiner Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : 6 Catégories : [CBNPMP-Thématique] Enjeux de conservation des lacs d'altitude [CBNPMP-Géographique] Alpes Résumé : Although the importance of lakes for providing cultural ecosystem services (CES) is widely recognized, the integration of associated values and benefits in decision making is still underdeveloped. Therefore, this study aimed at collecting and analyzing people’s perceptions related to various CES of mountain lakes using an online questionnaire. We thereby distinguished societal values in terms of CES from individual experiences that contribute to subjective well-being and elicited perceived pressures reducing the quality of nature-based experiences. Based on 526 responses, our results indicate that bequest, symbolic, aesthetic, and spiritual values are perceived as most important, while representation and entertainment were less important. Accordingly, experiences such as connection to nature, relaxation, and freedom had the highest values. In terms of pressures, crowdedness was mentioned most often, followed by noisiness and garbage. These pressures mostly affected experiences such as connection to nature, freedom, relaxation, peace, and memories, with negative effects also on CES, mainly on aesthetic value, sense of place, existence value, and symbolic value. In general, the perceptions were highly consistent across different socio-cultural groups. Nevertheless, some differences emerged between groups with different cultural backgrounds with respect to CES and pressures, while differences in experiences were mostly related to gender. Our findings advance the understanding of CES related to mountain lakes and provide useful insights for research as well as decision and policy making, emphasizing the high intrinsic value expressed by the respondents as well as the variety of CES and experiences associated with mountain lakes. Moreover, the identified pressures provide a valuable basis for consideration in tourism management, the protection of natural resources, and sustainable development because they advance our understanding of how infrastructure development and socioeconomic changes may aggravate impacts on societal values and individual experiences. Lien pérenne : DOI : 10.5751/ES-12987-270106 Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=152130 Schirpke, Uta, Scolozzi, Rocco, Tappeiner, Ulrike 2022 Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps. Ecology and society, 27(1): 6.

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Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services / Karl Grigulis in Journal of ecology, 101 (2013) 

Public Citation [article]  inJournal of ecology > 101 (2013) . - 47-57 Titre : Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services Type de document : Imprimé Auteurs : Karl Grigulis ; Sandra Lavorel (1965-) ; Ute krainer ; Nicolas Legay ; Catherine Baxendale ; Maxime Dumont ; Eva Kastl ; Cindy Arnoldi ; Richard D. Bardgett ; Franck Poly ; Thomas Pommier ; Michael Schloter ; Ulrike Tappeiner ; Michael Bahn ; Jean-Christophe Clément Année de publication : 2013 Article en page(s) : 47-57 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [CBNPMP-Thématique] Revégétalisation Note de contenu : 1 Plant functional diversity and soil microbial community composition are tightly coupled. Changes in these interactions may influence ecosystem functioning. Links between plant functional diversity, soil microbial communities and ecosystem functioning have been demonstrated in experiments using plant monocultures and mixtures, using broad plant and microbial functional groups, but have not been examined in diverse natural plant communities. 2 We quantified the relative effects of plant and microbial functional properties on key ecosystem functions. We measured plant functional diversity, soil microbial community composition and parameters associated with nitrogen (N) cycling and key nutrient cycling processes at three grassland sites in different parts of Europe. Because plant structure and function strongly influence soil microbial communities, we determined relationships between ecosystem properties, plant traits and soil community characteristics following a sequential approach in which plant traits were fitted first, followed by the additional effects of soil micro-organisms. 3 We identified a continuum from standing green biomass and standing litter, linked mostly with plant traits, to potential N mineralization and potential leaching of soil inorganic N, linked mostly with microbial properties. Plant and microbial functional parameters were equally important in explaining % organic matter content in soil. A parallel continuum ran from plant height, linked with above-ground biomass, to plant quality effects captured by the leaf economics spectrum, which were linked with the recycling of carbon (C) and N. 4 More exploitative species (higher specific leaf area, leaf N concentrations and lower leaf dry matter content) and taller swards, along with soil microbial communities dominated by bacteria, with rapid microbial activities, were linked with greater fodder production, but poor C and N retention. Conversely, dominance by conservative species (with opposite traits) and soil microbial communities dominated by fungi, and bacteria with slow activities, were usually linked with low production, but greater soil C storage and N retention. 5 Synthesis – Grassland production, C sequestration and soil N retention are jointly related to plant and microbial functional traits. Managing grasslands for selected, or multiple, ecosystem services will thus require a consideration of the joint effects of plant and soil communities. Further understanding of the mechanisms that link plant and microbial functional traits is essential to achieve this. Lien pérenne : DOI : 10.1111/1365-2745.12014 Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=148731 Grigulis, Karl, Lavorel, Sandra (1965-), krainer, Ute, Legay, Nicolas, Baxendale, Catherine, Dumont, Maxime, Kastl, Eva, Arnoldi, Cindy, Bardgett, Richard D., Poly, Franck, Pommier, Thomas, Schloter, Michael, Tappeiner, Ulrike, Bahn, Michael, Clément, Jean-Christophe 2013 Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services. Journal of ecology, 101: 47-57.

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