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Brilli L, Martin R, Argenti G, Bassignana M, Bindi M, Bonet R, Choler P, Cremonese E, Della Vedova M, Dibari C, Filippa G, Galvagno M, Leolini L, Moriondo M, Piccot A, Stendardi L, Targetti S, Bellocchi G. Uncertainties in the adaptation of alpine pastures to climate change based on remote sensing products and modelling. J Environ Manage 2023; 336:117575. [PMID: 36893538 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Over the last century, the management of pastoral systems has undergone major changes to meet the livelihood needs of alpine communities. Faced with the changes induced by recent global warming, the ecological status of many pastoral systems has seriously deteriorated in the western alpine region. We assessed changes in pasture dynamics by integrating information from remote-sensing products and two process-based models, i.e. the grassland-specific, biogeochemical growth model PaSim and the generic crop-growth model DayCent. Meteorological observations and satellite-derived Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) trajectories of three pasture macro-types (high, medium and low productivity classes) in two study areas - Parc National des Écrins (PNE) in France and Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso (PNGP) in Italy - were used as a basis for the model calibration work. The performance of the models was satisfactory in reproducing pasture production dynamics (R2 = 0.52 to 0.83). Projected changes in alpine pastures due to climate-change impacts and adaptation strategies indicate that: i) the length of the growing season is expected to increase between 15 and 40 days, resulting in changes in the timing and amount of biomass production, ii) summer water stress could limit pasture productivity; iii) earlier onset of grazing could enhance pasture productivity; iv) higher livestock densities could increase the rate of biomass regrowth, but major uncertainties in modelling processes need to be considered; and v) the carbon sequestration potential of pastures could decrease under limited water availability and warming.
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- L Brilli
- National Research Council - Institute of BioEconomy (IBE-CNR), 50145, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; University of Florence, DAGRI, 50144, Florence, Italy.
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UREP, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- University of Florence, DAGRI, 50144, Florence, Italy
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- University of Florence, DAGRI, 50144, Florence, Italy
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- Parc National des Ecrins, Domaine de Charance, 05000, Gap, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Climate Change Unit, Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley, Saint-Christophe, Italy
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- Parc National des Ecrins, Domaine de Charance, 05000, Gap, France
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- University of Florence, DAGRI, 50144, Florence, Italy
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- Climate Change Unit, Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley, Saint-Christophe, Italy
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- Climate Change Unit, Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley, Saint-Christophe, Italy
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- University of Florence, DAGRI, 50144, Florence, Italy
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- National Research Council - Institute of BioEconomy (IBE-CNR), 50145, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; University of Florence, DAGRI, 50144, Florence, Italy
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- Institut Agricole Régional, 11100, Aosta, Italy
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- University of Florence, DAGRI, 50144, Florence, Italy
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- University of Bologna, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Viale Fanin, 50, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UREP, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Maurischat P, Lehnert L, Zerres VHD, Tran TV, Kalbitz K, Rinnan Å, Li XG, Dorji T, Guggenberger G. The glacial-terrestrial-fluvial pathway: A multiparametrical analysis of spatiotemporal dissolved organic matter variation in three catchments of Lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau. Sci Total Environ 2022; 838:156542. [PMID: 35690211 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Revised: 06/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a sensitive alpine environment of global importance, being Asia's water tower, featuring vast ice masses and comprising the world's largest alpine grasslands. Intensified land-use and pronounced global climate change have put pressure on the environment of the TP. We studied the tempo-spatial variability of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to better understand the fluxes of nutrients and energy from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems in the TP. We used a multiparametrical approach, based on inorganic water chemistry, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration, dissolved organic matter (DOM) characteristics (chromophoric DOM, fluorescence DOM and δ13C of DOM) in stream samples of three catchments of the Nam Co watershed and the lake itself. Satellite based plant cover estimates were used to link biogeochemical data to the structure and degradation of vegetation zones in the catchments. Catchment streams showed site-specific DOM signatures inherited from glaciers, wetlands, groundwater, and Kobresia pygmaea pastures. By comparing stream and lake samples, we found DOM processing and unification by loss of chromophoric DOM signatures and a change towards an autochthonous source of lake DOM. DOM diversity was largest in the headwaters of the catchments and heavily modified in terminal aquatic systems. Seasonality was characterized by a minor influence of freshet and by a very strong impact of the Indian summer monsoon on DOM composition, with more microbial DOM sources. The DOM of Lake Nam Co differed chemically from stream water samples, indicating the lake to be a quasi-marine environment in regards to the degree of chemical modification and sources of DOM. DOM proved to be a powerful marker to elucidate consequences of land use and climatic change on biogeochemical processes in High Asian alpine ecosystems.
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- Philipp Maurischat
- Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Soil Science, Hannover, Germany.
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Geography, Munich, Germany
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Geography, Munich, Germany
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- Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Physics in Civil Engineering, Hannover, Germany
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, Dresden, Germany
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- University of Copenhagen, Department of Food Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
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- Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Soil Science, Hannover, Germany
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Vidondo B, Voelkl B. Dynamic network measures reveal the impact of cattle markets and alpine summering on the risk of epidemic outbreaks in the Swiss cattle population. BMC Vet Res 2018. [PMID: 29534711 PMCID: PMC5851077 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-018-1406-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Livestock herds are interconnected with each other via an intricate network of transports of animals which represents a potential substrate for the spread of epidemic diseases. We analysed four years (2012-2015) of daily bovine transports to assess the risk of disease transmission and identify times and locations where monitoring would be most effective. Specifically, we investigated how the seasonal dynamics of transport networks, driven by the alpine summering and traditional cattle markets, affect the risk of epidemic outbreaks. RESULTS We found strong and consistent seasonal variation in several structural network measures as well as in measures for outbreak risk. Analysis of the consequences of excluding markets, dealers and alpine pastures from the network shows that markets contribute much more to the overall outbreak risk than alpine summering. Static descriptors of monthly transport networks were poor predictors of outbreak risk emanating from individual holdings; a dynamic measure, which takes the temporal structure of the network into account, gave better risk estimates. A stochastic simulation suggests that targeted surveillance based on this dynamic network allows a higher detection rate and smaller outbreak size at detection than compared to other sampling schemes. CONCLUSIONS Dynamic measures based on time-stamped data-the outgoing contact chain-can give better risk estimates and could help to improve surveillance schemes. Using this measure we find evidence that even in a country with intense summering practice, markets continue being the prime risk factor for the spread of contagious diseases.
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- Beatriz Vidondo
- Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Schwarzenburgstrasse 155, CH-3097, Liebefeld, Switzerland.
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- Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Schwarzenburgstrasse 155, CH-3097, Liebefeld, Switzerland
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Panelli S, Brambati E, Bonacina C, Feligini M. Diversity of fungal flora in raw milk from the Italian Alps in relation to pasture altitude. Springerplus 2013; 2:405. [PMID: 24024093 PMCID: PMC3765600 DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 08/15/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The present paper explores the diversity of mycobiota inhabiting raw milk sampled at different altitudes (1400 m, 1800 m, 2200 m) from cows grazing Alpine pastures of Valle d’Aosta (North-Western Italian Alps). To this aim, multilocus sequencing was performed at barcodes commonly used for fungal identification (ITS1, D1/D2 domains of the 26S rRNA gene, and part of the β-tubulin gene). A total of 31 species were detected, most of them yeasts, followed by moulds and by 2 sequences of macroscopic fungi. Several yeasts and moulds were well-characterized inhabitants of the dairy environment, known to positively contribute to cheesemaking. Among these, Candida was the most represented genus with a tendency to cluster at the highest altitudes (6 over 8 observations at ≥ 1800 m), and Kluyveromyces marxianus the most abundant single species, retrieved at all altitudes. The environmental ascomycetous Atrotorquata lineata, never put in relation with food nor described outside North-America, was another species among those most frequently retrieved and was detected in 6 milks at 1400 and 1800 m. The remaining fungi, in general never reported in milk, were mostly environmental. Many of them resulted associated with plants as pathogens or symbionts. Finally, the highest sampled altitude yielded a significant fungal diversity (17 species). This work enlarges the knowledge of fungal consortia inhabiting raw milk and introduces microbial ecology among the altitude-dependent factors, in the composition of Alpine pastures, with the potential of shaping the properties of milks and cheeses, together with the already described physical, chemical and botanical variables.
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- Simona Panelli
- Istituto Sperimentale Italiano Lazzaro Spallanzani, Località La Quercia, Rivolta d'Adda, (Cremona), 26027 Italy
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