Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) as environmental risk factors in remote high-altitude ecosystems

R Kallenborn - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2006 - Elsevier
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and their transformation products, are the most
investigated organic environmental contaminants within the past five decades …

Dust inputs and bacteria influence dissolved organic matter in clear alpine lakes

N Mladenov, R Sommaruga… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Remote lakes are usually unaffected by direct human influence, yet they receive inputs of
atmospheric pollutants, dust, and other aerosols, both inorganic and organic. In remote …

Chemical pollution in inland shallow lakes in the Mediterranean region (NW Spain): PAHs, insecticides and herbicides in water and sediments

M Hijosa-Valsero, E Bécares… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
The possible effect of land uses and human-related geographic patterns (presence of roads
and urban settlements) on chemical pollution was evaluated in the waters and sediments of …

[HTML][HTML] Recent and subfossil diatom assemblages as indicators of environmental change (including fish introduction) in a high-mountain lake

M Cantonati, R Zorza, M Bertoli, P Pastorino, G Salvi… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigated modern-littoral and subfossil sediment-core diatoms in the shallow (max
depth 6.4 m) high-mountain Lake Balma in the Orsiera Rocciavrè Nature Park (Italian …

Regionalisation of remote European mountain lake ecosystems according to their biota: environmental versus geographical patterns

M Kernan, M Ventura, P Bitušík, A Brancelj… - Freshwater …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A survey of c. 350 remote high altitude and high latitude lakes from 11 different mountain
regions was undertaken to explore species distribution across Europe at a scale not …

The historical record of PAH, PCB, trace metal and fly-ash particle deposition at a remote lake in north-west Scotland

NL Rose, B Rippey - Environmental pollution, 2002 - Elsevier
Sediment cores taken from the deep basin of Loch Coire nan Arr in north-west Scotland
were dated using 210Pb calibrated spheroidal carbonaceous particle (SCP) profiles and …

Climate change and Saharan dust drive recent cladoceran and primary production changes in remote alpine lakes of Sierra Nevada, Spain

L Jiménez, KM Rühland, A Jeziorski… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recent anthropogenic climate change and the exponential increase over the past few
decades of Saharan dust deposition, containing ecologically important inputs of phosphorus …

Interacciones montaña-llanura frente al cambio global: desafíos y oportunidades en la gestión del territorio y de los recursos hídricos en Riegos del Alto Aragón

S Beguería, D Haro-Monteagudo, L Palazón Tabuenca… - 2022 - digital.csic.es
[ES] La transformación del secano en regadío en el sector central de la Depresión del Ebro
ha representado un cambio espectacular en las condiciones de cultivo de un territorio de …

Littoral benthic macroinvertebrates of alpine lakes (Tatra Mts) along an altitudinal gradient: a basis for climate change assessment

Z Čiamporová-Zaťovičová, L Hamerlík, F Šporka… - Hydrobiologia, 2010 - Springer
Littoral benthic macroinvertebrates were studied in three alpine lakes in the High Tatra
Mountains (Slovakia) located at different elevations: 2157, 1940 (alpine zone) and 1725 m …

A statistical approach to disentangle environmental forcings in a lacustrine record: the Lago Chungará case (Chilean Altiplano)

S Giralt, A Moreno, R Bao, A Sáez, R Prego… - Journal of …, 2008 - Springer
A high resolution multiproxy study (magnetic susceptibility, X-ray diffraction, XRF scanner,
gray-colour values, Total Organic Carbon, Total Inorganic Carbon, Total Carbon and Total …