Metacommunity ecology emphasizes that community structure and diversity are not only
determined by local environmental conditions through environmental filtering, but also by …

Examining the relative contribution of local environmental stressors and regional factors in
structuring biological communities is essential for biodiversity conservation and …

Expansion of agricultural and urban areas and intensification of catchment land-use
increasingly affect different facets of biodiversity in aquatic communities. However …

Metacommunity ecology highlights the importance of integrating simultaneously
environmental filtering and spatial processes, such as mass effects and dispersal limitation …

The metacommunity concept has been widely used to explain the biodiversity patterns at
various scales. It considers the influences of both local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic …

Many studies have shown traditional species diversity indices to perform poorly in
discriminating anthropogenic influences on biodiversity. By contrast, in marine systems …

Aim Changes in land use and cover (hereafter land use) affect freshwater ecosystems at
different spatial scales. We tested the effects of land use on the dispersal capacity of stream …

Despite a general recognition that benthic macroinvertebrates respond to changes in
hydrological connectivity within floodplain ecosystems, no consensus about patterns in …

Predicting how anthropogenic activities may influence the various components of
biodiversity is essential for finding ways to reduce diversity loss. This challenge involves: a) …

Freshwater biodiversity is rapidly declining due to accelerated human-induced disturbances.
Increased human-induced environmental disturbances are believed not to only decrease …