NOW OR NEVER: THE STUDY OF DISAPPEARING ICE ARCHIVES IN THE TIME OF GLOBAL WARMING

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Published: May 22, 2018
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Pollen, environmental DNA, mountain glacier, cryopalynology, ice cave, timescale

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Daniela Festi
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bolzano, Italy - University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Innsbruck, Austria

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Mountain glaciers in the Alps can provide detailed information on past climatic conditions. Regrettably, their persistence is currently threatened by the ongoing warming. This situation generates public concern and the need to recover and preserve ice cores before their stratigraphy is permanently compromised. This contribution reports on recent ice core drillings in the Eastern Alps implementing new approaches to directly link the climatic signal retained in the ice with the palaeo-environmental component of the ice.Pollen

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Festi, Daniela , trans. 2018. “NOW OR NEVER: THE STUDY OF DISAPPEARING ICE ARCHIVES IN THE TIME OF GLOBAL WARMING”. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 31 (May): 73-78. https://amq.aiqua.it/index.php/amq/article/view/191.
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Vol. 31 (2018): "Quaternary: Past, Present, Future - AIQUA Conference 2018"
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