Glacier-fed streams are the cold, ultra-oligotrophic, and unstable streams that are fed by
glacial meltwater. Despite these extreme conditions, they harbour a diverse and abundant …

Glaciers are receding worldwide because of climate change, and as a consequence, glacier-
fed streams are expected to undergo deep physical and chemical changes in the future …

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 …

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

Nearly 60% of the world's glaciers are predicted to be lost by the end of the century because
of global warming1. The impacts of this environmental change on the glacier-fed stream …

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

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 …

Microdiversity, the organization of microorganisms into groups with closely related but
ecologically different sub-types, is widespread and represents an important linchpin …

Alpine headwaters are threatened by global warming which is accelerating glacier and
permafrost thawing. Diversity and seasonal dynamics of aquatic communities are expected …

The melting of the cryosphere is among the most conspicuous consequences of climate
change, with impacts on microbial life and related biogeochemistry. However, we are …