Fish communities face increasing anthropogenic pressures in freshwater and marine
ecosystems that modify their biodiversity and threaten the services they supply to human …

All animals on Earth compete for free energy, which is acquired, assimilated, and ultimately
allocated to growth and reproduction. Competition is strongest within communities of …

Aim Human activities and the consequent extirpations of native species and introductions of
non‐native species have been modifying the composition of species assemblages …

Functional richness, currently defined as the amount of niche space occupied by the species
within a community, is one of the three major components of functional diversity. Different …

Loss of lateral hydrological connectivity (LHC) is a major cause of biodiversity decline in
river floodplains, yet little is known about its effects on aquatic functional diversity in these …

Aim The aim was to identify drivers of historical freshwater fish community assembly by
testing for interactions between functional traits and two climatic gradients, namely elevation …

Aim Community assembly processes are difficult to observe in nature but can be inferred
from species diversity patterns. However, taxonomic patterns may be consistent with multiple …

Investigations on the functional niche of organisms have primarily focused on differences
among species and tended to neglect the potential effects of intraspecific variability despite …

Aim Temperature is regarded as an important driver of broad‐scale biodiversity patterns.
However, less is known of the role of dispersal in sha** broad‐scale species and trait …

Functional traits are important for understanding the links between species occurrence and
environmental conditions. Identifying these links makes it possible to predict changes in …