While glaciers become increasingly recognised as a habitat for diverse and active microbial
communities, effects of their climate change-induced retreat on the microbial ecology of …

Microbial life in glacier-fed streams (GFSs) is dominated by benthic biofilms which fulfill
critical ecosystem processes. However, it remains unclear how the bacterial communities of …

Glaciers harbour diverse microorganisms, which upon ice melt can be released
downstream. In glacier‐fed streams microorganisms can attach to stones or sediments to …

Glaciers are highly responsive to global warming and important agents of landscape
heterogeneity. While it is well established that glacial ablation and snowmelt regulate stream …

High‐mountain streams are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they
intimately interface with the cryosphere. As glaciers shrink and snowpack diminishes …

Glaciated alpine floodplains are responding quickly to climate change through shrinking ice
masses. Given the expected future changes in their physicochemical environment, we …

In glacier-fed streams, ecological windows of opportunity allow complex microbial biofilms to
develop and transiently form the basis of the food web, thereby controlling key ecosystem …

Alpine streams are dynamic habitats harboring substantial biodiversity across small spatial
extents. The diversity of alpine stream biota is largely reflective of environmental …

Global climate change is causing a wastage of glaciers and threatening biodiversity in
glacier-fed ecosystems. The high turbidity typically found in those ecosystems, which is …

Glacier-fed streams (GFSs) are extreme and rapidly vanishing ecosystems, and yet they
harbor diverse microbial communities. Although our understanding of the GFS microbiome …