Community ecology recognises today that local biological communities are not only affected
by local biotic interactions and abiotic environmental conditions, but also by regional …

Determining and understanding relationships between biodiversity and hydrology is a
critical goal in ecology, particularly given biodiversity in the freshwater realm is in crisis …

The metacommunity framework has greatly advanced our understanding about the
importance of local and regional processes structuring ecological communities. However …

Community assembly theory is founded on the premise that the relative importance of local
environmental processes and dispersal shapes the compositional structure of …

Assembly processes shaping ecological communities can vary over time following variations
of environmental conditions at different scales. Such temporal dynamism is exacerbated by …

Aim We examined whether the community compositions of birds, lizards and small mammals
were nested in a fragmented landscape in the Thousand Island Lake, China. We also …

Aim To analyse temporal metacommunity dynamics in river networks in relation to
hydrological conditions and dispersal. Location Fifteen river reaches from the Llobregat …

Life is organized into more or less well-defined organizational levels, connected both
horizontally and vertically. Our knowledge is richer along the horizontal levels (eg inter …

Fine sediment is one of the major sources of stream physical and ecological impairment
worldwide. We assessed the ecological effects of fine sediment in an otherwise undisturbed …

Nature is organized into complex, dynamical networks of species and their interactions,
which may influence diversity and stability. However, network research is, generally, short …