Andrada Fiscutean
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first heard May 2026
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There is some bad news coming.
As part of a project called Gloria, Johannes Wesley at the University of Vienna and forty six co-authors marked out tiny squares on mountaintops.
These were one meter by one meter plots, up to sixteen of them just below each summit.
Sixty-two summits in total.
The study started in two thousand and one and every
Seven years researchers would visit each plot to write down the name of every single plant and how much ground it covered.
Did they study?
So they took samples from 16 mountain regions across Europe, including the Alps, the Apennines, the Pyrenees.
The Romanian data come from the Rodna Mountains in the eastern Curpatians.
But Marnie, I cannot tell you exactly where the Romanian plots are.
Botanist Mihai Pushkash, one of the study's Romanian co-authors, won't say this publicly.
Because he fears someone might go there and have a look and maybe pick some plants and ruin the data.
And it's interesting how much these plots have changed.
These days in the Carpathian Mountains, you can find plants like the stemless gentian, the Arnica, or a Carpathian bellflower called Campanulla serrata, and not.
None of these three had been recorded on any of the summits when the project started.
Also, in 2022, on the most recent survey, Pushkash saw a clear increase in the cover of dwarf shrubs, rhododendron, bilberry, and lindenberry, which are typically found lower down.
And here's the first conclusion, Moni: the mountaintops are becoming green.
cleaner with plants from lower altitudes taking up more space up on the mountain tops.
Well, if these plants are taking up more space on the mountain summit, they are squeezing out other species, and the rate of disappearance is increasing.
Every time the researchers went back to the plot, they found more missing plants than the time before.
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