Highlights•River impoundment results in fairly predictable changes in fish functional
diversity.•The most vulnerable species have functional traits associated with flowing water …

Freshwater biota are more comprehensive and direct indicators of biological impacts, and
more meaningful to the public than water quality or physical habitat surrogates. Freshwater …

Ecology is often said to lack general theories sufficiently predictive for applications. Here, we
examine the concept of a periodic table of niches and feasibility of niche classification …

Using the most comprehensive fish occurrence database, we evaluated the importance of
ecological and historical drivers in diversity patterns of subdrainage basins across the …

Aim To identify key research questions and challenges that will, if addressed in a timely
manner, significantly advance the field of freshwater fish biogeography and conservation …

Ecological theory and nature conservation have traditionally relied solely on observed local
diversity. In this review, we recommend including those species that are absent from an …

The species composition of stream fish assemblages changes across the longitudinal fluvial
gradient of large river basins. These changes may reflect both zonation in species …

We developed and validated a single multimetric index based on predictive models that
could evaluate anthropogenic disturbances in streams of three disparate ecoregions of …

Several studies have demonstrated a latitudinal gradient in the proportion of omnivorous fish
species (that is, consumers of both vegetal and animal material) in marine ecosystems. To …

Mims MC, Olden JD, Shattuck ZR, Poff NL. Life history trait diversity of native freshwater
fishes in North America. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 2010: 19: 390–400.© 2010 John Wiley …