Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season

R Novella‐Fernandez, L Chalmandrier, R Brandl… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of how biotic interactions influence animal community assembly is
largely restricted to local systems due to the difficulty of obtaining ecologically meaningful …

Damming affects riverine macroinvertebrate metacommunity dynamics: Insights from taxonomic and functional beta diversity

J Wang, C Ding, J Tao, X Jiang, J Heino, L Ding… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding ecological processes that drive metacommunity dynamics is essential for
elucidating the mechanisms of community assembly and for guiding biodiversity …

Small run-of-river dams affect taxonomic and functional β-diversity, community assembly process of benthic diatoms

Y Wang, N Wu, T Tang, S Zhou, Q Cai - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Being increasingly constructed worldwide, dams are a main driver of flow regime change
and biodiversity decline. Although small run-of-river dams have exceeded the number of …

Integration of α, β and γ components of macroinvertebrate taxonomic and functional diversity to measure of impacts of commercial sand dredging

X Meng, KM Cooper, Z Liu, Z Li, J Chen, X Jiang… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of commercial sand mining on aquatic diversity are of increasing global
concern, especially in parts of some develo** countries. However, understanding of this …