Understanding the effects of urbanization on the diversity of freshwater macroinvertebrates
is an important topic of biodiversity research and has direct conservation relevance. The …

Understanding ecological processes that drive metacommunity dynamics is essential for
elucidating the mechanisms of community assembly and for guiding biodiversity …

Aim Disentangling how stochastic and deterministic processes contribute to variation in beta
diversity is a common goal for ecologists and biogeographers. However, such studies are …

Stormwater ponds are beneficial to urban landscapes because these man-made systems
can reduce the negative effects of flooding in urban areas and restrain the distribution of …

Increased demands for water affect its quality and availability and threaten biodiversity. In
freshwaters, the Chironomidae (Diptera) represents~ 50% of macroinvertebrate individuals …

Community variation (ie, beta diversity) along geographical gradients is a well-known
ecological pattern, but the corresponding variation in beta diversity components (eg, species …

Both community variation and phosphorus (P) fractions have been extensively studied in
aquatic ecosystems, but how P fractions affect the mechanism underlying microbial beta …

The application of graph theory to metacommunity ecology allows a deeper analysis of the
effect of network structure on diversity patterns. Here, we set out to test the role of network …

Rapidly changing climate in the Northern Hemisphere and associated socio-economic
impacts require reliable understanding of lake systems as important freshwater resources …

In the context of global warming, extreme drought events have occurred more frequently and
this is projected to continue in the future in many parts of the world. However, their …