Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

Macroecology has traditionally relied on descriptive characterization of large-scale
ecological patterns to offer narrative explanations for the origin and maintenance of those …

Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across
páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods The unique páramos …

Climate change is leading to widespread elevational shifts thought to increase species
extinction risk in mountains. We integrate digital elevation models with a metric of human …

The rapid melting of mountain glaciers and the vanishing of their streams is emblematic of
climate change,. Glacier-fed streams (GFSs) are cold, oligotrophic and unstable ecosystems …

This paper draws together several lines of argument to suggest that an ecohydrological
framework, ie laboratory, field and theoretical approaches focused on hydrologic controls on …

Highlights•The world's mountains host immense biodiversity and hundreds of millions of
people.•Mountains provide ecosystem services for billions of people, also in the …

Ecological, evolutionary, spatial and neutral theories make distinct predictions and provide
distinct explanations for the mechanisms that control the relationship between diversity and …

Aquatic biodiversity plays a significant role in maintaining the ecological balance and the
overall health of riverine ecosystems. Elevation is an important factor influencing biodiversity …

Several key processes in freshwater ecology are governed by the connectivity inherent to
dendritic river networks. These have extensively been analyzed from a geomorphological …