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 …

Accurate predictions of ecosystem functions and nature's contributions to people (NCP) are
needed to prioritize environmental protection and restoration in the Anthropocene. However …

To meet the COP15 biodiversity framework in the European Union (EU), one target is to
protect 30% of its land by 2030 through a resilient transnational conservation network. The …

Although the importance of edaphic factors and habitat structure for plant growth and
survival is known, both are often neglected in favor of climatic drivers when investigating the …

Aim While species distribution models (SDMs) are standard tools to predict species
distributions, they can suffer from observation and sampling biases, particularly presence …

The Anthropocene is characterized by a rapid pace of environmental change and is causing
a multitude of biotic responses, including those that affect the spatial distribution of species …

1.3. Objectives Within this framework, our endeavor here was to combine an analysis of
mountain hikers' trajectories obtained by GPS-tracking devices to questionnaires in order to …

Climate change and biodiversity loss underscore the need for conservation planning, even
in remote areas. Species distribution models (SDMs) can help identify critical habitat for …

In alpine habitats, the seasonally marked climatic conditions generate seasonal and spatial
differences in forage availability for herbivores. Vegetation availability and quality during the …

Protected areas manage synergies and trade-offs associated with core missions of nature
protection while supporting education, recreation and tourism. In this paper we demonstrate …