Mountain Ecosystem

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Aeshna juncea

This large and fast dragonfly is a boreo-alpine species found all over Central and Northern Europe. It has a dark brown body and grows up to 8 cm in length, ...

The common frog belongs to the ‘brown’ frog family, whose members are less tied to water than other amphibians such as green frogs. It is found all ...

Leontopodium alpinum

This flower that symbolises the Alps has always been much sought after, even for commercial ends, and has thus risked local extinction. Now it stands ...

Salmo marmoratus

Until recent years considered a subspecies of the brown trout (Salmo trutta), the marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) is now classified in Italy as a Po-Veneto ...

Daphnia pulicaria alpina is a tiny freshwater crustacean that lives in the Arctic tundra and sometimes also further north. Only 3.5 mm long, it stands ...