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Ski resorts increasingly affect alpine ecosystems through enlargement of ski pistes, machine-grading of ski piste areas and increasing use of artifici...
Read moreHabitat fragmentation may affect species distributions through, for example, altered resource availability and shifts in species interactions. Fragmen...
Read moreClimate change and extreme events, such as drought, threaten ecosystems world-wide and in particular mountain ecosystems, where species often live at ...
Read moreDownhill skiing, the machine-grading of slopes and the use of artificial snow induce major disturbances to the environment of alpine ski resorts. Our ...
Read moreTurfs transplanted from native vegetation can be used to restore diverse plant communities on disturbed sites. There is, however, limited understandin...
Read moreEcosystem change is predicted to become more prevalent with climate change. Widespread dieback of cushion plants and bryophytes in alpine fellfield on...
Read moreIt is well known that climate change alters abiotic factors (temperature and water availability) that directly affect ecosystem properties. However, l...
Read moreLow-alpine heathlands world-wide have high biodiversity value but are increasingly impacted by the effects of nitrogen deposition as well as fire and ...
Read moreThe soil seed bank represents valuable rebuilding capital that may rescue an ecosystem from state transition once vegetation has crossed an apparent t...
Read moreThe functional structure of plant communities can be altered by grazing through two main mechanisms: species turnover (i.e. changes in species occurre...
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