Community assembly provides a conceptual foundation for understanding the processes
that determine which and how many species live in a particular locality. Evidence suggests …

▪ Abstract Movement between discrete habitat patches can present significant challenges to
organisms. Freshwater invertebrates achieve dispersal using a variety of mechanisms that …

A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

Ponds and pools, broadly defined in this paper to include all small and shallow standing
waters that permanently or temporarily contain water, are numerous, diverse and important …

1. Riverine landscapes are heterogeneous in space (complex mosaic of habitat types) and
time (expansion and contraction cycles, landscape legacies). They are inhabited by a …

Aquatic insects are the dominant invertebrate fauna in most freshwater ecosystems, and
figure prominently in the work of a diverse range of researchers, students, and …

Climate change brings with it unprecedented rates of increase in environmental
temperature, which will have major consequences for the earth's flora and fauna. The …

1. Aquatic macro‐invertebrates have frequently been used as biological indicators in lotic
environments but much less commonly so in lentic habitats. Dragonflies and damselflies …

The expansion of urban areas is one of the most significant anthropogenic impacts on the
natural landscape. Due to their sensitivity to stressors in both aquatic and terrestrial habitats …

The accumulation of scientific knowledge is far outstripped by the rate of environmental
disturbance from human activities in aquatic habitats. This highlights the need to develop …