REPLIM

The Pyrenean high mountain lakes and peat bogs are iconic elements of the landscape and the history of the territory. Their management and conservation, within the current context of climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure, requires a detailed knowledge of the biotic and abiotic processes in these systems, which should include their natural variability and the synergistic effects of the anthropogenic activities on the climate change. The REPLIM project aims to establish a monitoring network in lakes and peat bogs of the Pyrenees in order to characterize the impact of climate change on these vulnerable high mountain ecosystems, both locally and throughout the territory. The REPLIM network will also make it possible to identify the impacts that occurred before the industrial revolution and the Great Acceleration of the second half of the 20th century, and quantify the most recent ones. Finally, the REPLIM project will attempt to model the effects that the projected climate change will have on these ecosystems in the near future.