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Mountain permafrost (CLIM 011) - Assessment published Sep 2008: A warming of mountain permafrost in Europe of 0.5-1.0 o C was observed during the past 10-20 years. Present and projected atmospheric warming will likely lead to wide-spread thaw of mountain permafrost. Warming and melting of permafrost is expected to contribute to increasing the destabilization of mountain rock-walls, the frequency of rock falls, debris flow activity and geotechnical and maintenance problems in high-mountain infrastructure.
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Distribution of Natura 2000 sites in mountains across Europe: The map shows the distribution of Natura2000 sites across European mountain massifs.
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Vanishing open landscape in the East Carpathians Biosphere Reserve, Slovakia: Land use development of the East Carpathians Biosphere Reserve in 3 time series (1949, 1987, 2003) identified from aerial photographs
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European land cover in 2006, main land-cover categories of Europe: -
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Living with Climate change: Global warming is happening. Temperatures have already risen by 0.76 degrees since the industrial revolution and are projected to rise further by 1.8 - 4 degrees by the end of the century. The last time climate change happened at this pace was 125,000 years ago and led to a 4-6 metre sea level rise. Global warming at the upper end of the scale predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would have catastrophic consequences for Europe. Up to 30% of plant, animal and bird species would be wiped out and the threat of natural disasters such as landslides, floods and mudslides would increase significantly.
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Overlaps of High Nature Value (HNV) farmland and LFA designations in Spain: The maps shows Overlaps of HNV farmland and LFA designations in Spain.
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Number of mountain habitat types in individual groups of Annex I. habitats: The graph summarizes links between 9 main habitat groups distinguished by the Annex I of the Habitat Directive and mountain regions. Three types of relations are distinguished: mountain habitat; both mountain and non-mountain habitat; non-mountain habitat.
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Annex I habitat distribution across massifs: The pie charts show the relative distribution of a number of habitats types, defined by the Annex I of the Habitats Directive, across the massifs.
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Distribution of land cover changes in mountain massifs of EU-15 Member States (excluding Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden) and the new EU-27 Member States (excluding Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) in 2000-2006: Comparison of the distribution of land cover changes according to the LEAC land cover flow classification in mountain massifs, between EU-15 members (excluding Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden) and new EU-27 members (excluding Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.)
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Contribution of each land cover flow in the total amount of changes per year in mountains (100%) between 1990 and 2000 for six selected countries.: Proportion of each land cover flows in the total amount of land cover changes observed inside mountain massifs per year for six European countries.
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