@misc{10481/48075,
year = {2017},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/48075},
abstract = {In this thesis, we seek a deeper and broader understanding of how
Mediterranean alpine ecosystems responds to global change impacts over the
past ~200 years. High mountain lakes constitute an excellent witness of global
change and are amongst the most sensitive ecosystems to anthropogenic
climatic change and environmental changes. Nowadays, changes in air
temperature and precipitation have direct effects on the physical, chemical,
and biological characteristics of high mountain lakes, and indirectly by
modifying in-lake and catchment processes. In this thesis, we show that
Mediterranean high mountain ecosystems experience major changes in
response to recent warming. Besides, the interaction between factors of global
change promotes a series of direct and indirect effects able to affect changes
in biotic community composition and in the functioning and structure of
alpine ecosystems.
Spread over four data chapters, we explore distinct potential drivers of
local to regional-scale variability in the climate response of biological and
geochemical variables in the Sierra Nevada. More specifically, we study the
effects of climate-driven changes (such us ice cover duration, water residence
time or water temperature, among others) in the ecology and environment in
an alpine lake and its catchment, as well as the interaction between climate
and nutrient inputs in biological communities, and the role of lake-specific
characteristic in the distribution of subfossil cladocerans across Sierra Nevada
lakes.},
organization = {Tesis Univ. Granada. Programa Oficial de Doctorado en: Biología Fundamental y de Sistemas},
organization = {Beca del Programa Nacional de Formación de Profesorado Universitario (AP2007- 00352) por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.},
organization = {Proyectos de investigación: Patrones temporales en la biogeoquímica y la biota de las lagunas de Sierra Nevada: aproximación desde la Paleolimnología - BIOPAL (CGL2011-23483).},
organization = {Proyectos de investigación: Efectos del Cambio Climático en los ecosistemas acuáticos y terrestres de alta montaña de Sierra Nevada mediante el análisis del registro fósil de los sedimentos - SEDIMENT (OAPN 087/2007).},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {Sierra Nevada (España)},
keywords = {Cambio medioambiental global},
keywords = {Limnología},
keywords = {Mediterráneo},
keywords = {Suelos de montaña},
keywords = {Montañas},
keywords = {Biogeoquímica},
keywords = {Paleolimnología},
keywords = {Ecosistemas},
title = {Paleolimnological evidence of global change in high mountain ecosystems of Sierra Nevada},
author = {Jiménez Liebanas, Laura},
}