Many alpine ecosystems are undergoing vegetation degradation because of global change, which is affecting ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. The ecological consequences of alpine pioneer ...

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...

A view from high atop Mount Washington shows alpine plants and shrubs. Many of the species found on the mountain are rare, delicate, and highly specialized; the ecosystem at and around the summit is ...

Reduced snow cover and shifting vegetation patterns in the Alps, both driven by climate change, are having major combined impacts on biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems in the high mountains, ...

By Chris TaylorDavid LindenmayerPhil Zylstra In March, the Australian Government announced that the Alpine Ash forests of ...

Fontina ages in cellars for at least three months. But in recent years, many of the shelves have sat empty. In Italy’s Valle d’Aosta, I ducked into a tunnel carved into the side of a mountain. Once a ...

In Kosciuszko National Park in Australia's alpine region, the landscape is slowly changing. Patches of native vegetation cropped bald by horses are regrowing. Some long-eroded creek banks look less ...

Researchers have used a series of artificial stream channels to mimic the behavior of headwater creeks under future climate change scenarios. They found that drier conditions shifted the life cycles ...