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Open AccessEvaluating tramway infrastructure on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Tramways in urban areas for mass transit has been suggested to have a lower environmental footprint than roads. However, studies on the impact of tramways and the surrounding infrastructure on biodiversity is ...
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Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years
Insects have a pivotal role in ecosystem function, thus the decline of more than 75% in insect biomass in protected areas over recent decades in Central Europe1 and elsewhere2,3 has alarmed the public, pushed dec...
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Open AccessWeather, weekday, and vacation effects on webcam recorded daily visitor numbers in the alpine winter season
Winter tourism is an important economic factor in the European Alps, which could be exposed to severely changing meteorological conditions due to climate change in the future. The extent to which meteorology i...
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Open AccessEarlier and more uniform spring green-up linked to lower insect richness and biomass in temperate forests
Urbanization and agricultural intensification are considered the main causes of recent insect decline in temperate Europe, while direct climate warming effects are still ambiguous. Nonetheless, higher temperat...
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Klimawandel und Gesundheit
Die Autorinnen und Autoren betrachten in diesem Kapitel mögliche direkte und indirekte gesundheitliche Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Deutschland und die jeweils spezifischen Anpassungsmaßnahmen. Thematisier...
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Open AccessAssociation between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in all German districts: the importance of confounders
The focus of many studies is to estimate the effect of risk factors on outcomes, yet results may be dependent on the choice of other risk factors or potential confounders to include in a statistical model. For...
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Open AccessJet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth
The mechanistic pathways connecting ocean-atmosphere variability and terrestrial productivity are well-established theoretically, but remain challenging to quantify empirically. Such quantification will greatl...
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Open AccessClimate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests
The growth of past, present, and future forests was, is and will be affected by climate variability. This multifaceted relationship has been assessed in several regional studies, but spatially resolved, large-...
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Open AccessEstablishing the twig method for investigations on pollen characteristics of allergenic tree species
The twig method in climate chambers has been shown to successfully work as a proxy for outdoor manipulations in various experimental setups. This study was conducted to further establish this method for the in...
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Open AccessMaps, trends, and temperature sensitivities—phenological information from and for decreasing numbers of volunteer observers
Phenology serves as a major indicator of ongoing climate change. Long-term phenological observations are critically important for tracking and communicating these changes. The phenological observation network ...
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Open AccessClimateEU, scale-free climate normals, historical time series, and future projections for Europe
Interpolated climate data have become essential for regional or local climate change impact assessments and the development of climate change adaptation strategies. Here, we contribute an accessible, comprehen...
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Pollen forecasts in complex topography: two case studies from the Alps using the numerical pollen forecast model COSMO-ART
Pollen concentrations on Alpine mountain tops are poorly known due to few observations and few modeling studies. We present two case studies from the Alps that provide insights into the spatial and temporal di...
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Regional trend changes in recent surface warming
It has been argued in the literature that global temperature increased at a reduced rate between approximately 1998 and 2013, a phenomenon known as the ‘global warming hiatus’. Statistically motivated studies ...
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The allergen riddle
An assessment of the taxonomic composition of airborne pollen using targeted high-throughput sequencing may help in understanding environmental and human drivers of the grass pollen season and in allergy preve...
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Decrease or increase? Temporal changes in pollen concentrations assessed by Bayesian statistics
Aerobiological studies mostly apply linear models when analysing long-term changes in pollen concentrations. There is some evidence that linear models are not fully suitable for describing these changes in rec...
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8 million phenological and sky images from 29 ecosystems from the Arctic to the tropics: the Phenological Eyes Network
We report long-term continuous phenological and sky images taken by time-lapse cameras through the Phenological Eyes Network (http://www.pheno-eye.org. Acces...
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Open AccessA four year survey reveals a coherent pattern between occurrence of fruit bodies and soil amoebae populations for nivicolous myxomycetes
Among soil-inhabiting protists, myxomycetes stand out by their macroscopic fructifications which have allowed studies on their ecology and distribution for more than two hundred years. One of the most distinct...
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Soil water storage appears to compensate for climatic aridity at the xeric margin of European tree species distribution
Based on macroecological data, we test the hypothesis whether European tree species of temperate and boreal distribution maintain their water and nutrient supply in the more arid southern margin of their distr...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The Tree Drought Emission MONitor (Tree DEMON), an innovative system for assessing biogenic volatile organic compounds emission from plants
After publication of this article [1], the authors noted the following error. Due to a calculation error in the temperature term f(TL) of the emission standardization algorithm (Eq. 3 of the original paper), the ...
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Changes in spring arrival dates and temperature sensitivity of migratory birds over two centuries
Long-term phenological data have been crucial at documenting the effects of climate change in organisms. However, in most animal taxa, time series length seldom exceeds 35 years. Therefore, we have limited evi...
