Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

The first studies of diatoms and river pollution were carried out 60 years ago, and the
suitability of these micro-algae as bioassessment indicators for monitoring river quality was …

This is the second edition of Freshwater Algae; the popular guide to temperate freshwater
algae. This book uniquely combines practical information on sampling and experimental …

Biological similartiy typically decreases with geographical distance. Despite the recent
attention to the distance decay relationship, there is no consensus on how the relationship …

Aim An intensively debated issue in macroecology is whether unicellular organisms show
biogeographic patterns different from those of macroorganisms. One aspect of this debate …

We present Procrustean Approach to Cophylogeny (PACo), a novel statistical tool to test for
congruence between phylogenetic trees, or between phylogenetic distance matrices of …

Aim To examine species and trait composition in stream diatoms along environmental,
climatic and spatial gradients and to ascertain if the use of different levels of biological …

We examined variability in hierarchical beta diversity across ecosystems, geographical
gradients, and organism groups using multivariate spatial mixed modeling analysis of two …

Aim We examined the relative contributions of spatial gradients and local environmental
conditions to macroinvertebrate assemblages of boreal headwater streams at three …

There is a long‐standing belief that microbial organisms have unlimited dispersal
capabilities, are therefore ubiquitous, and show weak or absent latitudinal diversity …