Objective To achieve a more complete understanding of the structure and functioning of a wide range of remote mountain lakes in view of their responses to varying levels of acid deposition and of their role as potential reference sites for climate and environmental change research.The "ALPE 2" project represents an enlargement in scope and geographical coverage of the ongoing "ALPE 1" project in the STEP Programme. In addition to the remote mountain lakes in the highlands of Norway and Scotland, in the Italian and South Tyrolian parts of the Alps and the French part of the Pyrenees considered in "ALPE 1", the "ALPE 2" project extends the investigations on lake sediments, water chemistry, diatom, invertebrate and fish fauna on lakes in Spitzbergen (Svalbard), the Irish highlands, Austrian Alps, the Czechoslovakian and Polish parts of the High Tatra mountains, the Spanish part of the Pyrenees, the Sierra Nevada in Spain and the Sierra d'Estrela in Portugal. Overall, in 20 remote lakes, situated above the local timberline, seasonal changes in major limnological, chemical and biological parameters will be studied in function of the air pollution deposition and of climatic factors. The investigations on lakes in the ongoing "ALPE 1" project will be extended towards the determination of zooplankton (inventory and changes), the consideration of organic matter loading, the evolution of decomposition of plant material, trace metals, sulphate reduction capacity, and contamination by persistent organic compounds in selected lakes.The whole coordinated measurement programme will be subject to stringent quality control measures, extensive statistical analysis and empirical modelling of palaeolimnological, limnological, biological and chemical data to:- quantitatively reconstruct the historical development and to estimate the likelihood of future development of lake water pH;- to quantify the relationships between invertebrate assemblages and water chemistry (canonical correspondence analysis and weighted averaging);- to quantify the relationships between fish populations and environmental conditions;- to test for patterns of variation in lake-water chemistry within and between lakes over time (redundancy analysis, trend analysis, Monte Carlo permutation tests);Finally it is intended to identify "critical sulphur and nitrogen loads" and "recommended target loads" for those remote mountain areas, to apply biological data to the establishment of guidelines for good monitoring and management practices, to establish baseline conditions for the long-term evaluation of impacts of climatic and environmental change. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineeringnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changesnatural sciencesbiological scienceszoologyinvertebrate zoology Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040202 - Regional aspects of ecosystems protection Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON EU contribution No data Address Bedford Way 26 SE1 9RT LONDON United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (13) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Austria EU contribution No data Address 116,Mondseestrasse 9 5310 MONDSEE See on map Total cost No data CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE Czechia EU contribution No data Address 7,Vinicna 7 128 44 PRAHA 2 See on map Total cost No data CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Spain EU contribution No data Address 18-26,Jordi Girona 18-26 08034 BARCELONA See on map Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER BIOLOGY - POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Poland EU contribution No data Address 17,Slawkowska 17 Karol Starmach 31 016 KRAKOW See on map Total cost No data LEOPOLD-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK Austria EU contribution No data Address 25,Technikerstrasse 25 6020 INNSBRUCK See on map Total cost No data NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ITALY Italy EU contribution No data Address Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50-52 28922 VERBANIA See on map Total cost No data NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH Norway EU contribution No data Address 19,Brekkeveien 19 0411 Oslo See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI BOLZANO - REG.ALTO ADIGE Italy EU contribution No data Address Unterbergstrasse, 2 39055 LAIVES See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA Spain EU contribution No data Address Edificio Fay Luis de Granda, C/ Ramón y Cajal 4 18071 GRANADA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA Spain EU contribution No data Address 645,Avinguda Diagonal 645 08028 BARCELONA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN Norway EU contribution No data Address Allegaten 41 5007 BERGEN See on map Total cost No data University of Bergen Norway EU contribution No data Address 3,Muséplass 5007 Bergen See on map Total cost No data Université de Savoie France EU contribution No data Address 73011 Chambéry See on map Total cost No data
