Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFFs) constitute the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna
on Earth, with more than 6,200 named species compressed into an aquatic footprint< 0.5 …

A sound understanding of the community changes over time and its driving forces is at the
centre of biodiversity conservation and ecology research. In this study, we examined:(i) the …

The ever-increasing threats to riverine ecosystems call for novel approaches for highly
resolved biodiversity assessments across taxonomic groups and spatio-temporal scales …

Aim Understanding the variation in biodiversity and its underlying drivers and mechanisms
is a core task in biogeography and ecology. We examined (a) the relative contributions of …

Understanding ecological processes that drive metacommunity dynamics is essential for
elucidating the mechanisms of community assembly and for guiding biodiversity …

Aim Disentangling how stochastic and deterministic processes contribute to variation in beta
diversity is a common goal for ecologists and biogeographers. However, such studies are …

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most endangered ecosystem in the world.
Understanding how human activities affect these ecosystems requires disentangling and …

Information is scarce on how environmental and dispersal processes interact with biological
features of the organisms, such as their habitat affinity, to influence patterns in biodiversity …

In naturally flowing waters, communities are expected to increase their taxonomic and
functional diversity as well as increase the complexity of food web architecture along the …

The effects of anthropogenic disturbance on multiple facets of biodiversity are poorly
understood. In this study, we worked with the hypothesis that anthropogenic disturbances …