From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Rumpf, Sabine B., Gravey, Mathieu, Bronnimann, Olivier, Luoto, Miska, Cianfrani, Carmen, Mariethoz, Gregoire, Guisan, Antoine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Browning; albedo; Climate change; permafrost
• Online Access: https://edoc.unibas.ch/88521/; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn6697

Mountains are hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but they are warming about twice as fast as the global average. Climate change may reduce alpine snow cover and increase vegetation productivity, as in the Arctic. Here, we demonstrate that 77% of the European Alps above the tree line ex...