Contexte environnemental et colonisation végétale des moraines récentes

• Published in: Norois
• Main Author: Moreau, Myrtille
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2008
• Subjects: analyse de données; marge proglaciaire; mésoclimat; data analysis; proglacial area; geo; envir; Arctic; Edithbreen; Svalbard; Arctique*; glacier; Spitsberg
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/norois/647

In relation with the present global climatic change following the Little Ice Age, most of the Arctic Glaciers are retreating. Therefore, larger and larger areas become free for plant colonization. Such processes can be observed on Svalbard where the present study takes place; on the front areas of t...