Cel The objective is to compare the effects of air pollution in remote mountain lakes in the Alpine mountains with those of other susceptible mountain areas in Scandinavia, Scotland and the Pyrenees, in order to: identify critical sulphur and nitrogen loads; recommend target loads for susceptible lake ecosystems; explore the possibility of their use as early indicators of changes in atmospheric loads; and to develop integrated management strategies for susceptible aquatic ecosystems in Europe.Some of the most interesting conclusions from the discussion of the results concern the similarities of sites in these various mountain regions of Europe. Similarities are apparent at all levels, in water chemistry, paleolimnology, invertebrates and fish. This reflects a similar response of the biological communities to a common physico-chemical environment in these remote areas, and is of high importance for the programme with regard to future work in the follow-up project 'AL:PE 2'. An important achievement of the AL:PE project has been the standardization of working methods and the establishment of intercalibration procedures during this cooperative research, as well as the exchange of expertise between research groups. This secures the quality of data across the programme and allows robust comparability of results at a European level. The results confirm that acidification is a widespread problem in Europe, and that acidification processes are not restricted to lakes and rivers close to densely populated areas, where short-range impacts from local activities may be expected. The findings demonstrate that remote mountain areas are affected by acid deposition through long-range transported air pollution.This project represents an extension of an ongoing project on acidification processes in Alpine lakes (contracts EV4V-0113 and EV4V-0114) on the geographical scale towards the investigation of Scandinavian, Scottish and Pyreneen mountain lakes. It intends to improve the knowledge about the amounts and quality of atmospheric inputs into the various mountain areas and will investigate important catchment and in lake processes, covering water chemistry, fish, invertebrate and epilithic diatom communities status, sediment core analyses and other paleolimnological approaches. The project will investigate field sites in Norway, Scotland, the Italian, Swiss, Austrian and French Alps and the French part of the Pyrenees. Dziedzina nauki engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineeringnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologylimnologynatural sciencesbiological scienceszoologyinvertebrate zoology Program(-y) FP2-STEP - Two specific research and technological development programmes (EEC) in the field of the environment STEP/EPOCH - STEP -, 1989-1992 Temat(-y) Data not available Zaproszenie do składania wniosków Data not available System finansowania CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Koordynator Birkbeck College, University of London Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Malet Street, Bloomsbury WC1E 7HX London Zjednoczone Królestwo Zobacz na mapie Koszt całkowity Brak danych Uczestnicy (6) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Francja Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Place du Docteur Peyneau 33120 Arcachon Zobacz na mapie Koszt całkowity Brak danych Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Włochy Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 00185 Roma Zobacz na mapie Koszt całkowity Brak danych NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH Norwegia Wkład UE Brak danych Adres 19,Brekkeveien 19 0411 Oslo Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano Regione Alto Adige Włochy Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Via Mendola 24 39100 Bolzano Zobacz na mapie Koszt całkowity Brak danych University of Bergen Norwegia Wkład UE Brak danych Adres 5007 Bergen Zobacz na mapie Koszt całkowity Brak danych Université de Savoie Francja Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Campus Scientifique 73376 Le Bourget-du-Lac Zobacz na mapie Koszt całkowity Brak danych