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 alpine belt hosts the treeless vegetation above the high elevation climatic treeline. The
way alpine plants manage to thrive in a climate that prevents tree growth is through small …

Binomial N‐mixture models have proven very useful in ecology, conservation, and
monitoring: they allow estimation and modeling of abundance separately from detection …

The global long‐term decline of migrant birds represents an important and challenging issue
for conservation scientists and practitioners. This review draws together recent research …

Global change in climate and land use has profound effects on species' geographic and
elevational distributions. In European birds, while species are predicted to track their climatic …

The provision of anthropogenic food to wildlife is a global phenomenon, and intentional wild
bird feeding has become increasingly popular in the last decades. Though there is …

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

A growing food demand and advanced agricultural techniques increasingly affect farmland
ecosystems, threatening invertebrate populations with cascading effects along the food …

Motivation We undertook large citizen science surveys of bird distributions (atlases) in
Britain and Ireland, aimed at quantifying breeding bird distributions on a 20‐year cycle and …

In migratory animals, the developmental period from inexperienced juveniles to breeding
adults could be a key life stage in shaping population migration patterns. Nevertheless, the …