Climate extremes and their physical impacts–including droughts, fires, floods, heat waves,
storm surges and tropical cyclones–are important structuring forces in riverine ecosystems …

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life—growing toxicity and rising
temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of …

Quantifying assemblage structure across spatio‐temporal scales is ecologically important
and further aids in the understanding of community organisation processes. Currently, few …

Although rivers support significant unionid mussel (Unionida: Unionidae) diversity, Gulf of
Mexico tributary rivers have been subject to changes in water quality and habitat due to …

Human activities have widely disrupted the spatial ecological processes critical for
population and ecosystem integrity. Local effects of altered sediment regimes in rivers are …

Abstract Hurricane Katrina struck southeastern Louisiana on 29 August 2005 and thereby
created an opportunity to examine the effects of a catastrophic storm on fish assemblages in …

Abstract Objective Gulf Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi populations have undergone
substantial declines since the start of the 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss. A …

The Yellow-blotched Sawback (Graptemys flavimaculata) is a riverine turtle that is endemic
to the Pascagoula River system of southern Mississippi, USA. Population declines led to …

The southeastern United States represents one of the richest collections of aquatic
biodiversity worldwide; however, many of these taxa are under an increasing threat of …

Positive correlations between diversity and stability have been reported for a number of
ecosystems and are thought to be caused by a stabilizing effect of differential species' …