As the evidence for human induced climate change becomes clearer, so too does the
realization that its effects will have impacts on numerous environmental and socio-economic …

Fish introduction is a major threat to alpine lake biota leading to the loss of native species
and to the degeneration of natural food-webs. This study provides an extensive investigation …

Fish stocking is a serious threat to originally fishless mountain lakes. We used non-chemical
eradication methods (ie gillnetting and electrofishing) in four high mountain lakes in the …

Calanoids of the family Diaptomidae are the most widespread copepods in the lentic inland
waters of the Palearctic region. In Italy, studies on the family date back to the end of 19th …

High-mountain lakes (HMLs) are remote, extreme, and sensitive ecosystems recognized as
sentinels of global change. Lakes El Sol and La Luna are very close to each other inside the …

Wet deposition of reactive nitrogen (Nr) species is considered a main factor contributing to N
inputs, of which nitrate (NO 3−) is usually the major component in high-mountain lakes. The …

Climate warming is accelerating the retreat of glaciers and recently, many 'new'glacial turbid
lakes have been created. In the course of time, the loss of the hydrological connectivity to a …

Climate change is altering both dissolved organic matter (DOM) properties and
phytoplankton dynamics in lakes. High‐altitude lakes are good sentinels of global change …

We report a dataset of known and published occurrence records of Italian taxa from species
(and subspecies) to family rank of the phylum Rotifera; we considered only Bdelloidea …

Transhumance–the summer transfer of livestock to highland pastures–is a traditional
practice in the European Alps and is considered an integral part of the mountain ecosystem …