Our 12.81 m long record from Lake **mencuo provides insight into the Lateglacial and
Holocene evolution of the lake and the Nianbaoyeze glacier in its catchment, and the …

Ongoing climate warming has been demonstrated to impact the cryosphere in the Indian
Himalayas, with substantial consequences for the risk of disasters, human well-being, and …

Aim To produce a statistical stratification of the European environment, suitable for stratified
random sampling of ecological resources, the selection of sites for representative studies …

Exploration of environmental factors governing soil microbial community composition is long
overdue and now possible with improved methods for characterizing microbial communities …

A logical way of distinguishing functional groups of phytoplankton is to cluster species
according to their functional traits, such as growth rate and nutrient assimilation constants …

For birds in urban environments, the configuration of local habitat within the landscape may
be as critical as the composition of the local habitat itself. We examined the relative …

Background and Aims A standardized methodology to assess the impacts of land-use
changes on vegetation and ecosystem functioning is presented. It assumes that species …

Summary 1 Body‐size may be an important feature of the structure of food webs. Detailed
food web data are however scarce, particularly those including ontogenetic dietary shifts …

The taxonomic composition of chironomid, cladoceran and diatom assemblages in small
lakes in the Alpine region shows a strong relationship with summer temperature. Since …

Aim To examine the roles of local and regional environmental variables and biotic
interactions in determining the structure of local stream fish assemblages, and to compare …