East Greenland: on the tracks of the historical botanists Gelting (1934) and Schwarzenbach (2001)
Date:
Lieu:
Hörsaal SLF & Zoom
Organisé par:
SLF
Interventant/intervenante:
Christian Rixen
Langue(s):
English
Type de manifestation:
Exposés et colloques
Public cible:
Everybody interested in this topic
Plants are excellent indicators of environmental changes (incl. climate change), and we have used historical plant records previously to study (very) long-term vegetation changes in cold environments.
In remote areas like Greenland, historical surveys are rather scarce. Therefore, we were excited to find reliable data from almost 90 years ago and re-survey data from the Swiss botanist Fritz Schwarzenbach from 2001. With support from the EU INTERACT program, a team of 3 botanists went to East Greenland this summer to carry out a re-re-survey. In this seminar I will mostly present the adventure of being left alone in a very remote part of the world and briefly talk about preliminary results and links to other ongoing re-resurveys in the Arctic.
For a short article about the expedition see also:
https://polarjournal.ch/en/2023/08/28/a-swiss-team-in-the-footsteps-of-two-botanists-from-the-past/
Zoomlink: https://wsl.zoom.us/j/99170585359