Roughly 10% of the Earth's surface is permanently covered by glaciers and ice sheets and
in mountain ecosystems, this proportion of ice cover is often even higher. From an ecological …

In light of ongoing climate change, it is increasingly important to know how nutritional
requirements of ectotherms are affected by changing temperatures. Here, we analyse the …

Daphnia populations are present in lakes and ponds. They are known to experience diurnal
vertical migrations according to their feeding needs. During the day they migrate downwards …

Planktonic ciliates constitute a fundamental component among microzooplankton and play a
prominent role in carbon transport at the base of marine food webs. How these organisms …

Abstract The Andes mountains extend North-South in a latitudinal gradient of 8,500 km. Due
to the great climatic variety and the peculiar north-south orographic distribution, lakes are …

Molting is a crucial physiological process in arthropods development, growth, and adult
reproduction, where the chitinolytic enzyme chitobiase (CB) and the apoptosis process …

Lakes are particularly vulnerable to environmental changes and thus considered sentinels
and integrators of processes that occur in the atmosphere and terrestrial environments …

High glacial mountain environments around the world are important water reservoirs and
are extremely sensitive to the effects of climate change. Considering that climate change …

Abstract North Patagonian Andean deep lakes (> 100 m depth) are ultraoligotrophic, and
thus are high light-low nutrient environments. In this chapter, we present examples and …

Zooplankton are exposed to multiple environmental stressors in alpine lakes. However,
phenotypic and molecular responses of copepods to different environmental conditions …