Mountain hares (Lepus timidus hibernicus Bell) are extremely vagile and commute up to 3 km daily within their home ranges. However, observational and mark-recapture evidence suggests that they do not ...

1. Winter tourism in the European Alps has developed rapidly over the past few decades, leading to the expansion of ski resorts, growing numbers of visitors and a massive increase in snow sport ...

The process of rapid climate change operated cyclically throughout the Pleistocene and this caused repeated local extinctions, range changes and may have promoted vicariant speciation among temperate ...

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