Mountain areas are biodiversity hotspots and provide a multitude of ecosystem services of
irreplaceable socio‐economic value. In the European Alps, air temperature has increased at …

The global cryosphere, Earth's frozen water, is in precipitous decline. The ongoing and
predicted impacts of cryosphere loss are diverse, ranging from disappearance of entire …

Mountain ecosystems naturally experience strong seasonal weather variations leading to a
brief peak in food availability that constrains bird reproduction. Climate change accentuates …

Snow cover dynamics (ie depth, duration and variability) are dominant drivers of ecological
processes during winter. For overwintering species, changes and gradients in snow cover …

Background To understand the ecology of long-distance migrant bird species, it is necessary
to study their full annual cycle, including migratory routes and stopovers. This is especially …

Alpine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change. For widely distributed
alpine specialists, rear‐edge populations are disproportionately important; it is expected that …

To track peaks in resource abundance, temperate-zone animals use predictive
environmental cues to rear their offspring when conditions are most favourable. However …

Rear‐edge alpine biodiversity is expected to suffer one of the largest ecological impacts due
to current and foreseen climate change. For highly mobile and long‐living species, climate …

Aim High‐elevation specialist species are threatened by climate change and habitat loss,
and their distributions are becoming increasingly reduced and fragmented. In such a …

Mountains naturally offer variable habitat conditions, but their biodiversity is currently facing
the extra challenge of adapting to rapid environmental shifts that are much more …