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 …

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time, 1, 2 and attempts to address it
require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental …

A range of factors may determine the structure of ecological communities in time and space,
in particular niches, dispersal limits, and the evolutionary history of the species. In the last …

Conservation initiatives overwhelmingly focus on terrestrial biodiversity, and little is known
about the freshwater cobenefits of terrestrial conservation actions. We sampled more than …

Despite the fundamental dependence of human populations on water resources, a range of
anthropogenic impacts, in particular the removal of riparian vegetation, threaten freshwater …

The accumulation of scientific knowledge is far outstripped by the rate of environmental
disturbance from human activities in aquatic habitats. This highlights the need to develop …

The presence of riparian vegetation provides microclimatic regulation of stream conditions
[eg luminosity (lux), air temperature (° C) and relative humidity (%)], which varies naturally …

Generally, habitat loss and fragmentation negatively affect biota, often in nonlinear ways.
Such nonlinear responses suggest the existence of critical limits for habitat loss beyond …

Deforestation is a major threat globally, but especially in tropical regions because they are
biodiversity strongholds and carbon storehouses. Some studies have reported changes in …

Conversion of natural landscapes into agricultural land-uses represents a major threat to
global biodiversity. In lotic ecosystems, aquatic insects are among some of the most …