Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research

On thin glacial ice: New Austrian Glacier Inventory shows accelerating glacier shrinkage and 31 % area loss within two decades

We present the new Austrian glacier inventory, AGI5. Glacier outlines were manually digitized from high-resolution orthoimagery and digital elevation models, using older inventories as a baseline. The delineation of debris-covered ice was supported by visual analysis of multi-tem...

Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe’s summit plant communities

Abstract Recent changes in alpine vegetation are often attributed to climate warming, particularly community composition shifts towards more warmth-associated species, or thermophilization. Here we assess the link between thermophilization and warming across 53 European mountain...