Claim · model-written summary
Calderone glacier is probably acting as one of the last refugia for rare and endemic cryophilic species in the Mediterranean Region during the ongoing warm period.
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e0“is probably currently acting as one of the last refugia for rare and endemic cryophilic species within the Mediterranean Region during the ongoing warm period”
Title
Barbara Valle; Michele di Musciano; Mauro Gobbi; et al. The Holocene 2022. doi:10.1177/09596836221096292
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Supraglacial debris and nearby moraine of the Calderone Glacier hosted a rather diverse and peculiar biodiversity of plants and arthropods, including new species.
- Observation Some arthropods, such as the springtail Desoria calderonis, are particularly sensitive to the presence of ice at microtopographic level.
- Observation Among plants, only Arabis alpina caucasica is able to grow on the supraglacial debris.
- Mechanism Growth of Arabis alpina caucasica on supraglacial debris is perhaps explained by factors related to seed germination and seedling survival on this habitat.