In alpine regions worldwide, climate change is dramatically altering ecosystems and
affecting biodiversity in many ways. For streams, receding alpine glaciers and snowfields …

The recent and rapid recession of alpine glaciers over the last 150 years has major
implications for associated aquatic communities. Glacial meltwater shapes many of the …

Glaciers cover∼ 10% of the Earth's land surface, but they are shrinking rapidly across most
parts of the world, leading to cascading impacts on downstream systems. Glaciers impart …

Glaciers cover about 10% of the Earth's land area but they are retreating rapidly and many
will disappear within decades. Glacier retreat is a worldwide phenomenon increasing the …

Freshwater biodiversity is under threat across the globe, with climate change being a
significant contributor,. One impact of climate change is the rapid shrinking of glaciers …

Determining and understanding relationships between biodiversity and hydrology is a
critical goal in ecology, particularly given biodiversity in the freshwater realm is in crisis …

While glaciers become increasingly recognised as a habitat for diverse and active microbial
communities, effects of their climate change-induced retreat on the microbial ecology of …

The hypotheses that beta diversity should increase with decreasing latitude and increase
with spatial extent of a region have rarely been tested based on a comparative analysis of …

Global change threatens invertebrate biodiversity and its central role in numerous
ecosystem functions and services. Functional trait analyses have been advocated to …

Extensive global glacial retreats are threatening cryosphere ecosystem functioning and the
associated biota in glacier-fed water systems. Understanding multi-group biodiversity …