The Anthropocene presents formidable threats to freshwater ecosystems. Lakes are
especially vulnerable and important at the same time. They cover only a small area …

Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

River networks are hierarchical dendritic habitats embedded within the terrestrial landscape,
with varying connectivity between sites depending on their positions along the network. This …

Spatial structures of ecological communities may originate either from the dependence of
community structure on environmental variables or/and from community-based processes. In …

We examine evidence for the structuring of fish communities from stream and lake systems
and the roles of biotic, abiotic, and spatial factors in determining the species composition …

The Mantel test provides a means to test the association between distance matrices and has
been widely used in ecological and evolutionary studies. Recently, another permutation test …

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 …

Community ecology has broadened considerably with the recognition that it is not only at the
species‐level data where biological patterns and their determinants should be studied …

We present Procrustean Approach to Cophylogeny (PACo), a novel statistical tool to test for
congruence between phylogenetic trees, or between phylogenetic distance matrices of …

Aim Variation partitioning based on canonical analysis is the most commonly used analysis
to investigate community patterns according to environmental and spatial predictors …