How do freshwater organisms cross the “dry ocean”? A review on passive dispersal and colonization processes with a special focus on temporary ponds

G Incagnone, F Marrone, R Barone, L Robba… - Hydrobiologia, 2015‏ - Springer
Lakes and ponds are scattered on Earth's surface as islands in the ocean. The organisms
inhabiting these ecosystems have thus developed strategies to pass the barrier represented …

Tethyan changes shaped aquatic diversification

Z Hou, S Li - Biological reviews, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Tethys Ocean existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia
from the Triassic to the Pliocene. Analyses of multiple biogeographic and phylogenetic …

Perspectives for an integrated understanding of tropical and temperate high-mountain lakes

J Catalan, JC Donato Rondón - 2016‏ - digital.csic.es
High mountain lakes are extreme freshwater ecosystems and excellent sentinels of current
global change. They are likely among the most comparable ecosystems across the world …

Dormancy in metacommunities

NI Wisnoski, MA Leibold… - The American …, 2019‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Although metacommunity ecology has improved our understanding of how dispersal affects
community structure and dynamics across spatial scales, it has yet to adequately account for …

[PDF][PDF] Why should we preserve fishless high mountain lakes?

M Ventura, R Tiberti, T Buchaca, D Buñay… - … conservation in a …, 2017‏ - library.oapen.org
High mountain lakes are originally fishless, although many have had introductions of non-
native fish species, predominantly trout, and recently also minnows introduced by fishermen …

Mountain glaciers influence biogeochemical and ecological characteristics of high‐elevation lakes across the northern Rocky Mountains, USA

JW Vanderwall, CC Muhlfeld… - Limnology and …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mountain glaciers are retreating rapidly due to climate change, leading to the formation of
downstream lakes. However, little is known about the physical and biogeochemical …

Regional community assembly drivers and microbial environmental sources sha** bacterioplankton in an alpine lacustrine district (Pyrenees, Spain)

R Ortiz‐Álvarez, J Cáliz, L Camarero… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Microbial communities in natural ecosystems are subject to strong ecological rules. The
study of local communities along a regional metacommunity can reveal patterns of …

Multiple glacial refugia and contemporary dispersal shape the genetic structure of an endemic amphibian from the Pyrenees

F Lucati, M Poignet, A Miró, A Trochet… - Molecular …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Historical factors (colonization scenarios, demographic oscillations) and contemporary
processes (population connectivity, current population size) largely contribute to sha** …

Zooplankton diversity and dispersal by birds; insights from different geographical scales

DO Hessen, TC Jensen, B Walseng - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Given the major ecological and evolutionary role of dispersal abilities for organisms, as well
as the current interest in species' potential for further migration and colonization as a result …

Survivors and colonizers: Contrasting biogeographic histories reconciled in the Antarctic freshwater copepod Boeckella poppei

CS Maturana, EM Biersma, A Díaz… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain the contemporary distribution of
Antarctic terrestrial biota. We assess whether the current distribution of maritime Antarctic …