Dispersal is difficult to quantify and often treated as purely stochastic and extrinsically
controlled. Consequently, there remains uncertainty about how individual traits mediate …

Nematodes colonize almost all aquatic habitats worldwide. Despite their small size,
restricted locomotion and lack of pelagic larvae, they can reach even isolated habitats within …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …

Streams and rivers form conspicuous networks on the Earth and are among nature's most
effective integrators. Their dendritic structure reaches into the terrestrial landscape and …

There has been a recent rise in the number of experiments investigating the effect of
dispersal on diversity, with many of the predictions for these tests derived from …

Eutrophication and acidification are among the major stressors on freshwater ecosystems in
northern Europe and North America, but possible consequences of interactions between pH …

Limited knowledge of bird microbiome in the all‐body niche hinders our understanding of
host–microbial relationships and animal health. Here, we characterized the microbial …

Metacommunity theory poses that the occurrence and abundance of species is a product of
local factors, including disturbance, and regional factors, like dispersal among patches …

An intriguing recent result from mathematics is that a population diffusing at an intermediate
rate in an environment in which resources vary spatially will reach a higher total equilibrium …

Metacommunity theory predicts that increasing patch size and patch connectivity can alter
local species diversity by affecting either colonization rates, extinction rates or both …