Frequent and severe disruptions of natural river flows associated with human activities
significantly alter hydrological connectivity in large river networks, with deleterious effects on …

Motivated by recent global initiatives for biodiversity conservation and restoration, this article
reviews the gaps in our understanding of, and the challenges facing, freshwater …

Ensuring the provision of essential ecosystem services in systems affected by multiple
stressors is a key challenge for theoretical and applied ecology. Trait‐based approaches …

Environmental filtering and spatial processes have been associated with variation in
ecological communities and biodiversity; however, their relative importance on multiple …

Stream restoration efforts have increased, but the success rate is still rather low. The
underlying reasons for these unsuccessful restoration efforts remain inconclusive and need …

The growing interest in combining spatial and temporal patterns in nature has been fostered
by the current availability of high‐frequency measurements. However, we still lack a …

Unraveling the ecological factors that control variation in local community structure in space
and time is fundamental to metacommunity ecology. In this scenario, environmental filtering …

Dispersal, defined as the movement of individuals among local communities in a landscape,
is a central regional determinant of metacommunity dynamics in ecosystems. Whereas both …

Urban development has put great pressures on lotic environments, as human needs have
often been prioritized over ecosystem health. Typical interventions found in urban …

Our understanding of the factors driving the distribution of metacommunities at different
scales can be obscured by high variation in species composition between sites and a lack of …