It seems improbable that a thin veneer of attached algae coating submerged surfaces in
lakes and rivers could be the foundation of many freshwater food webs, but increasing …

Decades of interdisciplinary research show river form and function depends on interactions
between the living and nonliving world, but a dominant paradigm underlying ecogeomorphic …

Experiments have revealed much about top‐down and bottom‐up control in ecosystems, but
manipulative experiments are limited in spatial and temporal scale. To obtain a more …

Background Integrative taxonomy is becoming ever more significant in biodiversity research
as scientists are tackling increasingly taxonomically challenging groups. Implementing a …

Background The biogeographical and ecological history of true flies (Diptera) in New
Zealand is little known due to a scarcity of fossil specimens. Here, we report a fauna of …

The most important environmental characteristic in streams is flow. Due to the force of water
current, most ecological processes and taxonomic richness in streams mainly occur in the …

In shallow‐water sediments, the combined action of microphytobenthos and bioturbating
fauna may differentially affect benthic nutrient fluxes and exert a bottom‐up control of pelagic …

Benthic macrofaunal communities have a profound impact on organic matter turnover and
nutrient cycling in marine sediments. Their activities are of particular importance in the …

Rapidly changing climate in the Northern Hemisphere and associated socio-economic
impacts require reliable understanding of lake systems as important freshwater resources …

Light is a primary driver of lake ecosystem metabolism, and the dependence of primary
production on light is often quantified as a photosynthesis‐irradiance or “P‐I” curve. The …