On the shape and origins of the freshwater species–area relationship

SI Passy, JL Mruzek, WR Budnick, T Leboucher… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The species–area relationship (SAR) has over a 150‐year‐long history in ecology, but how
its shape and origins vary across scales and organisms remains incompletely understood …

Environmental and Spatial Effects on Co‐Occurrence Network Size and Taxonomic Similarity in Stream Diatoms, Insects and Fish

JL Mruzek, WR Budnick, CA Larson… - Global Ecology and …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The influences of environmental and spatial processes on species composition have
been at the center of metacommunity ecology. Conversely, the relative importance of these …

A new perspective on the spatial, environmental, and metacommunity controls of local biodiversity

SI Passy, CA Larson, JL Mruzek, WR Budnick… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Influential ecological research in the 1980s, elucidating that local biodiversity (LB) is a
function of local ecological factors and the size of the regional species pool (γ-diversity), has …