Bioindicators, as taxa or functional groups, are widely used as indicators of environmental
change, specific ecological factors or taxonomic diversity. The use of ecological …

Tourism is a large, diffuse global industry. Environmental aspects are little studied, with∼
1,500 publications in total. Impacts range from global contributions to climate change and …

Identifying climate refugia is key to effective biodiversity conservation under a changing
climate, especially for mountain‐specialist species adapted to cold conditions and highly …

Winter conditions impose dramatic constraints on temperate, boreal, and polar ecosystems,
and shape the abiotic and biotic interactions underpinning these systems. At high latitudes …

The ski industry is often perceived as having a negative impact on sensitive alpine and
subalpine communities. However, empirical evidence of such impacts is lacking. We …

We investigated patterns in species richness and diversity, life-history traits and functional
diversity of carabid beetles and spiders along a coastal heathland successional gradient …

Alpine and subalpine ecosystems support many endemic species. These ecosystems are
increasingly under threat from human‐induced disturbances such as habitat loss and …

There is a paucity of research on the wider landscape-level effects of ski-piste construction
on alpine fauna. In this study, the response of alpine bird communities to the landscape …

The largest debris-covered glacier in the Alps (Miage Glacier, western Italian Alps) has been
studied to explore the effects of debris-cover extent and depth on the spatial distribution of …

Abstract In the Southern Alps, climate warming induced the use of artificial snow since two
decades. In this area, two different ski piste management practices prevail:(1) large and …