ArticleNature ecology & evolution2023
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected.
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- Predicting climate-change impacts on the global glacier-fed stream microbiome.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Mapping the metagenomic diversity of the multi-kingdom glacier-fed stream microbiome.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Long-term changes of alpine stream macroinvertebrates in relation to glacial recession.Aquatic sciences · 2025Article
- Land cover change across the major proglacial regions of the sub-Antarctic islands, Antarctic Peninsula, and McMurdo Dry Valleys, during the 21Arctic, antarctic, and alpine research · 2025Article
- Diptera Dwelling Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitats in an Alpine Floodplain (Amola Glacier, Italian Alps).Insects · 2024Article
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Abstract
Alpine river biodiversity around the world is under threat from glacier retreat driven by rapid warming, yet our ability to predict the future distributions of specialist cold-water species is currently limited. Here we link future glacier projections, hydrological routing methods and species distribution models to quantify the changing influence of glaciers on population distributions of 15 alpine river invertebrate species across the entire European Alps, from 2020 to 2100. Glacial influence on rivers is projected to decrease steadily, with river networks expanding into higher elevations at a rate of 1% per decade. Species are projected to undergo upstream distribution shifts where glaciers persist but become functionally extinct where glaciers disappear completely. Several alpine catchments are predicted to offer climate refugia for cold-water specialists. However, present-day protected area networks provide relatively poor coverage of these future refugia, suggesting that alpine conservation strategies must change to accommodate the future effects of global warming.
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