Glacier retreat is transforming high‐mountain and polar landscapes, replacing ice with vast, newly exposed terrains where soil development and ecological succession start. Although ecosystems developing in deglaciated terrains are often viewed as starting from scratch, glaciers host diverse communities whose links with emerging soils remain unquantified. Using environmental DNA metabarcoding, we provide the first multi‐taxa as...

Micro-endemic animals face high extinction risks. Species distribution models offer powerful tools for effective conservation strategies, but their implementation is hindered by the resolution of environmental data such as land cover. Here, we assessed the efficacy of one regional versus two continental land cover datasets in predicting habitat suitability for Salamandra atra aurorae , a fully terrestrial amphibian endemic to...

Many organisms live in networks of local populations connected by dispersing individuals, called spatially structured populations (SSPs), where the long‐term persistence of the entire network is determined by the balance between 2 processes acting at the scale of local populations: extinction and colonization. When multiple threats act on an SSP, a comparison of the different factors determining local extinctions and colonizat...