Biotic responses to rapid climatic changes: Introduction to a multidisciplinary study of the Younger Dryas and minor oscillations on an altitudinal transect in the Swiss Alps

This article appears in the special issue "Rapid-Warming Project", which outlines some key findings from the project informally known as the "Rapid-Warming Project", the goal of which is to assess the qualitative and quantitative responses of various groups of organisms to rapid climatic changes in the past.