DNA barcodes successfully delimit morphospecies in a superdiverse insect genus

C Song, XL Lin, Q Wang, XH Wang - Zoologica Scripta, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with 520 currently known species worldwide,
can be extremely difficult to identify species level based on the morphology. We used 3,670 …

Loss of lateral hydrological connectivity impacts multiple facets of molluscan biodiversity in floodplain lakes

P Zheng, X Jiang, F Shu, Z Li, S Zhang… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lateral hydrological connectivity (LHC) is a key process in maintaining aquatic biodiversity
in river floodplain ecosystems. However, the effects of LHC loss on aquatic biodiversity are …

Responses of species and phylogenetic diversity of fish communities in the Lancang River to hydropower development and exotic invasions

C Zhang, L Ding, C Ding, L Chen, J Sun, X Jiang - Ecological Indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Multiple anthropogenic disturbances have been modifying the structure and diversity of local
assemblages worldwide through both introductions of nonnative species and …

Discriminating the effects of local stressors from climatic factors and dispersal processes on multiple biodiversity dimensions of macroinvertebrate communities across …

Z Li, Z Liu, J Heino, X Jiang, J Wang, T Tang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metacommunity ecology emphasizes that community structure and diversity are not only
determined by local environmental conditions through environmental filtering, but also by …

Spatio-temporal pattern of the Chironomidae community: toward the use of non-biting midges in bioassessment programs

D Milošević, V Simić, M Stojković, D Čerba, D Mančev… - Aquatic Ecology, 2013 - Springer
We employed the self-organizing map (SOM) method to investigate the spatio-temporal
pattern of the Chironomidae community in the Southern Morava River basin (Serbia) and to …

Application of taxonomic distinctness indices of fish assemblages for assessing effects of river-lake disconnection and eutrophication in floodplain lakes

X Jiang, B Pan, Z Sun, L Cao, Y Lu - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
The taxonomic distinctness (TD) indices have been recommended as robust measures for
detecting human disturbances, due to their appealing properties such as independence of …

Can excluding non-insect taxa from stream macroinvertebrate surveys enhance the sensitivity of taxonomic distinctness indices to human disturbance?

X Jiang, Z Song, J **ong, Z **e - Ecological Indicators, 2014 - Elsevier
Taxonomic distinctness (TD) indices are increasingly recognized as promising measures of
diversity for assessing the quality of aquatic ecosystems. TD indices have a number of …

Measuring ecosystem degradation through half a century of fish species introductions and extirpations in a large isolated lake

ZG Jiang, S Brosse, XM Jiang, E Zhang - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
The introduction of exotic species and the extirpation of native species that occurred during
the past two centuries have strongly modified the structure of most plant and animal …

Visualization of fish community distribution patterns using the self-organizing map: A case study of the Great Morava River system (Serbia)

M Stojkovic, V Simic, D Milosevic, D Mancev… - Ecological …, 2013 - Elsevier
There is little information on how fish communities are in accordance with landscape
classification. In this study, we have chosen the Great Morava River system to characterize …

Responses of the macroinvertebrate taxonomic distinctness indices of lake fauna to human disturbances in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river

L Zhang, B Pan, X Jiang, H Wang, Y Lu, Y Lu, R Li - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent decades, floodplain lakes have been among the most endangered ecosystems in
the world due to human activities, and they are experiencing severe degradation in …