Holocene vegetation history and human impact in the eastern Italian Alps: a multi-proxy study on the Coltrondo peat bog, Comelico Superiore, Italy. [PDF]
Segnana M +8 more
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The oxygen and pressure physiology of upper elevational range limits in insects
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Climate warming is widely expected to cause montane insects to shift upslope, and there is good evidence that some populations are doing so. Nevertheless, patterns are mixed—with evidence supporting upslope, downslope or even no movement of both lower and upper range ...
H. Arthur Woods +2 more
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Temporal Changes in Tick-Borne Pathogen Prevalence in Questing Ixodes ricinus Across Different Habitats in the North-Eastern Italian Alps. [PDF]
Rosso F +8 more
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Drivers of Soil Community Composition in Apple Orchards: Insights From Environmental Metabarcoding
Despite uniform management practices, single orchards of the 26 studied had only a small part of total diversity of prokaryotes, protists and fungi. Community assembly was governed primarily by stochastic processes and turnover dominated community composition for all organismal groups. ABSTRACT Soil biodiversity in apple orchards plays a vital role for
Ulrike Obertegger +7 more
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When enough is enough: Optimising monitoring effort for large-scale wolf population size estimation in the Italian Alps. [PDF]
Boiani MV +8 more
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ABSTRACT Background Encephalitis is difficult to diagnose and manage, posing a challenge to clinicians. Since the last European guidelines were published in 2010, novel causes have emerged, diagnostic processes have evolved and treatments assessed which need to be reflected in updated guidelines.
Julia Granerod +29 more
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Six years of high-resolution climatic data collected along an elevation gradient in the Italian Alps. [PDF]
Zandonai A +6 more
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Transhumance as a Prism. Toward a Planetary Rural Geography of Mountain Space
ABSTRACT Transhumance is a marginal—yet crucial—practice within mountain and rural geographies at a global scale. The term refers to a wide range of extensive grazing systems characterized by the seasonal movement of herds and flocks between different altitudes, within diverse governance systems.
Francesca Sabatini, Giacomo Pettenati
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Environmental impact and mobility of thallium and other metal(oid)s in soils and tailings near a decommissioned Zn-Pb mine (Raibl, NE Italian Alps). [PDF]
Barago N +6 more
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Mountain ecosystems are under strong environmental pressure and are considered highly vulnerable to climate change, which is likely to lead to forest expansion and loss of open alpine grasslands, threatening many specialized species. However, for most alpine birds, even basic ecological knowledge, such as their diet, remains limited, restricting our ...
Camille Mermillon +6 more
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