Climate change is altering conditions in high‐elevation streams worldwide, with largely
unknown effects on resident communities of aquatic insects. Here, we review the challenges …

Rapid recession of glaciers and snowfields is threatening the habitats of cold-water
biodiversity worldwide. In many ice-sourced headwaters of western North America …

Understanding biotic interactions and how they vary across habitats is important for
assessing the vulnerability of communities to climate change. Receding glaciers in high …

The melting cryosphere adds heterogeneity to the abiotic and biotic characteristics of many
high latitude and montane rivers. However, climate change threatens the cryosphere's …

How aquatic insects cope with cold temperatures is poorly understood. This is particularly
true for high-elevation species, which often experience a seasonal risk of freezing. In the …

Under climate change, glacier recession and the loss of cold habitats are major threats to
aquatic biodiversity. In mountain areas, streams originating from rock glaciers, called “icy …

Although most lotic ecosystems experience frequent and sometimes large disturbances,
opportunities are uncommon to study primary succession in streams. Exceptions include …

Climate change and progressive glacier loss are leading to rapid ecological shifts in alpine
aquatic systems. Rock glaciers and paraglacial features such as proglacial lakes, moraines …

Alpine streams support unique biodiversity because of their isolation in the river network and
harsh environmental conditions. Variation in water sources to alpine streams are an …

Relict periglacial landforms play an important ecosystem role in mountain regions and are
becoming relevant in the global context of climate change. In the eastern region of the North …