Alpine glacial relict species losing out to climate change: The case of the fragmented mountain hare population (Lepus timidus) in the Alps

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Rehnus, Maik, Bollmann, Kurt, Schmatz, Dirk R., Hackländer, Klaus, Braunisch, Veronika
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: 570 Life sciences; biology; 590 Animals (Zoology); Arctic; Tive; Climate change; Lepus timidus; mountain hare
• Online Access: https://boris.unibe.ch/126990/1/Rehnus_GloChaBio2018.pdf; https://boris.unibe.ch/126990/

Alpine and Arctic species are considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate change, which is expected to cause habitat loss, fragmentation and—ultimately—ex- tinction of cold-adapted species. However, the impact of climate change on glacial relict populations is not well understood, and specif...