Sentence examples for alpine refuges from inspiring English sources

Now is the time to work on the long-term effort of helping wolverines reclaim snowy alpine refuges that are unlikely to persist in a warming world.

The existence of Eastern Alpine refuges is also supported by several recent molecular genetic studies dealing with mountain plants [ 8, 37, 38] and invertebrates [ 9, 10, 39].

As the rain started to fall, and the temperature dipped into the 40s outside, Lakes was what all the huts are at their core: an alpine refuge full of contented strangers.

Where to stay Alpine accommodation ranges from weathered mountain refuges to swish spas and designer hotels.

When the Nazis came through the Alpine town where he had taken refuge with relatives, the name Perec, being plausibly Breton, did not attract suspicion.

Swiss Data Safe stockpiles paintings, bullion and computer data in an Alpine bunker originally intended as a refuge for the Swiss government in case of invasion or nuclear war.

The rescue team, made up of Alpine guides and instructors, reached a mountain refuge on Saturday night.

During glacial episodes in Europe, alpine species such as T. pallescens were forced into low altitude refuges [ 17, 18].

The genetic diversity within Orcula allows to conclude that the Alpine endemics outlasted the LGM and earlier Pleistocene cold stages probably in several smaller refuges at the periphery of both the Northern and the Southern Calcareous Alps and did not suffer from genetic bottlenecks.

Accordingly, the diversification of most Alpine Orcula species pre-dated the Pleistocene and their speciation cannot plausibly be explained solely by divergence in separate glacial refuges as proposed by Zimmermann (1932) [ 20] - only the split of the closely related O. austriaca, O. tolminensis and O. gularis is dated in the Pleistocene.

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