Global Change and Interspecific Competition Impacts on the Genetic Connectivity of Mountain Hare (Lepus timidus) and European Hare (Lepus europaeus) Populations in the French Alps.

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In mountain ecosystems, the persistence of species increasingly depends on the maintenance of functional connectivity under the dual pressures of climate and land-use change. "Sky island" species such as the mountain hare (Lepus timidus) are particularly vulnerable, being restricted to high-altitude cold-climate habitats. Meanwhile, generalist and expanding species like the European hare (L. europaeus) may...

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