▪ Abstract We review the major conceptual developments that have occurred over the last 50
years concerning the factors that influence insect biodiversity in streams and examine how …

Nearly 50 years of research focused on large wood (LW) in rivers provide a basis for
understanding how wood enters rivers; how wood decays, breaks, and is transported …

Stream invertebrate communities are the product of multiple-scale habitat filters, and a major
goal in community ecology is to determine which scales most influence the relationships …

Abstract Structure and composition of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages were
investigated in seven sampling sites with a gradient of environmental integrity and water …

Drought leads to a loss of longitudinal and lateral hydrologic connectivity, which causes
direct or indirect changes in stream ecosystem properties. Changes in macrohabitat …

Community convergence across biogeographically distinct regions suggests the existence
of key, repeated, evolutionary mechanisms relating community characteristics to the …

Forest management operations may result in above-ambient inputs of fine sediments to
streams with consequences for stream biota. A field experiment was conducted at the …

SUMMARY 1 The methods used to indicate the biological state of streams are often based
on taxonomic composition, and the abundance of species or other taxa. This 'taxonomic …

Comprehensive global studies of stream invertebrate assemblages are rare and have
produced contradictory results. To address this shortcoming, we compiled data from 495 …

Effective ecosystem management in the face of human alterations depends on our ability to
quantify ecologically significant changes and to discriminate among impact levels and types …