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Traditional medicinal plants in South Tyrol (northern Italy, southern Alps): biodiversity and use. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2020 Background Worldwide mountain regions are recognized as hotspots of ethnopharmacologically relevant species diversity. In South Tyrol (Southern Alps, Italy), and due to the region’s high plant diversity and isolated population, a unique traditional ...
Petelka J, Plagg B, Säumel I, Zerbe S.
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Ice thickness and volume changes across the Southern Alps, New Zealand, from the little ice age to present. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Rapid changes observed today in mountain glaciers need to be put into a longer-term context to understand global sea-level contributions, regional climate-glacier systems and local landscape evolution.
Carrivick JL +4 more
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Postcollisional cooling history of the Eastern and Southern Alps and its linkage to Adria indentation. [PDF]
Int J Earth Sci, 2017 Indentation of rigid blocks into rheologically weak orogens is generally associated with spatiotemporally variable vertical and lateral block extrusion.
Heberer B +8 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Glacial refugia of alpine and subnival biota have been intensively studied in the European Alps but the fate of forests and their understory species in that area remains largely unclear.
Eliška Záveská +10 more
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Messinian or Pleistocene valley incision within the Southern Alps
Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2020 Many of the valleys on the southern slope of the Alps are over-deepened, having bedrock valley floors well below sea level. This has typically been attributed to incision that occurred during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) when sea level dropped by ...
Sascha Winterberg +2 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2016 Alpine permafrost occurrence in maritime climates has received little attention, despite suggestions that permafrost may occur at lower elevations than in continental climates.
Katrin eSattler +5 more
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The movements of Alpine glaciers throughout the last 10,000 years as sensitive proxies of temperature and climate changes [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020 A brief review of the movements of Alpine glaciers throughout the Holocene in the Northern Hemisphere (European Alps) and in the Southern Hemisphere (New Zealand Southern Alps) is presented.
Kutschera Walter +5 more
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A new caenogastropod from the upper Rhaetian of Lombardy: Palaeobiogeographical history and implications for the Early Jurassic gastropod recovery [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 A new gastropod genus and its type species, namely Ederazyga fanchini gen. et sp. nov., are described from the upper Rhaetian deposits of Lombardy (northern Italy) and tentatively placed into the family Zygopleuridae. The first appearance of Ederazyga is
Vittorio Pieroni +2 more
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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2023 In this study, we inventoried and mapped the active and transitional rock glaciers in the central part of the Southern Alps, New Zealand, using Sentinel-1 InSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) data.
C. Lambiel +4 more
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Journal of Glaciology, 2022 An end of summer snowline (EOSS) photographic dataset for Aotearoa New Zealand contains over four decades of equilibrium line altitude (ELA) observations for more than 50 index glaciers. This dataset provides an opportunity to create a climatological ELA
A. Lorrey +9 more
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