High mountain habitats are experiencing globally significant increases in temperature, extreme weather and climate-induced habitat loss, but predicting impacts to birds is hampered by the limited information regarding avian ...

Campo rupestre is a megadiverse vegetation mosaic dominating one of the world's geologically oldest tropical mountains. The campo rupestre hosts nearly 15% of Brazil's flora, with 40% of endemism in an area smaller than ...

The carnivore community of the altiplano ecosystem of the high Andes, including the Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita) and pampas cat (Leopardus colocolo), is one of the least studied in the world. We determined the ...

Ecologists all over the world have long been interested in studying mountains. Many factors explain the importance of mountain ecosystems as models to test patterns of spatial variation of biological communities: 1. Along ...

The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) promotes basic and applied research to understand how drivers and processes of global change present challenges and opportunities in mountain social-ecological systems. It convenes a ...

Mountains, often referred to as the world's water towers, play a vital role in global water distribution. They receive significant precipitations and redistribute these waters to lower regions, thereby sustaining a major ...

Mountain ecosystems comprise 24% of the land-base of world. Avian communities have been poorly studied in southern temperate Andes. Opposite to tropical mountains, habitat specialization of birds is not expected to be a ...

In alpine regions worldwide, climate change is dramatically altering ecosystems and affecting biodiversity in many ways. For streams, receding alpine glaciers and snowfields, paired with altered precipitation regimes, are ...