Beta diversity, the variation of community composition among sites, bridges alpha and
gamma diversity and can reveal the mechanisms of community assembly through applying …

Aim Contemporary dispersal constraints and environmental conditions are broadly
recognized as significant drivers of beta diversity patterns. However, beta diversity patterns …

Recent advancements in DNA techniques, metabarcoding, and bioinformatics could help
expand the use of benthic diatoms in monitoring and assessment programs by providing …

Microbial beta diversity has been recently studied along the water depth in aquatic
ecosystems, however its turnover and nestedness components remain elusive especially for …

This study presents the long‐term evolution of two floodplains lakes (San Juana and
Barbacoas) of the Magdalena River in Colombia with varying degree of connectivity to the …

Determination of the relationships between environmental factors and diatom assemblages
is usually made for several hundred lakes spread over a large area. However, the analysis …

Some case studies that evidence changes in the composition of aquatic macroinvertebrates
along the altitudinal gradients of Colombian rivers are analyzed. Most of the works on …

Recent research on diatom metacommunities has focused on disentangling the assembly
mechanisms driving species and functional composition and biodiversity across space and …

The term “guild” as a fundamental unit of communities had already been used in terrestrial
research from the 1900s, but its definition was first provided in 1967. In diatom studies …

An in situ experiment determined that the addition of ammonia N-NH 4+, nitrate N-NO 3–and
phosphate P-PO 4 3–to an oligotrophic Andean stream significantly affected diatom …