Worldwide biodiversity assessments have mainly focused on species richness but little is
known about the diversity of species roles, ie functional diversity, while this is a key facet to …

Motivation Global freshwater fish biodiversity and the responses of fishes to global changes
have been explored intensively using taxonomic data, whereas functional aspects remain …

Identifying the drivers and processes that determine globally the geographic range size of
species is crucial to understanding the geographic distribution of biodiversity and further …

Climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems and freshwater biodiversity show strong
spatial variability, highlighting the importance of a global perspective. While previous studies …

Dam construction alters flow regimes and can change the composition of aquatic
communities. Using data from three Brazilian hydrographic basins, we tested the hypothesis …

Land use intensification has led to conspicuous changes in plant and animal communities
across the world. Shifts in trait‐based functional composition have recently been …

The primary objective of this study was to determine the relative roles of local environmental
(Local), geo‐climatic (Geo), and spatial (Spatial) factors to taxonomic, functional, and …

Understanding drivers of biodiversity is a long-standing goal of basic and applied ecological
research. In riverine systems, there remains a critical need to identify these drivers as efforts …

Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation are essential processes affecting the
variability of ecological communities. However, their relative contributions are highly …

The taxonomy-based response pattern of macroinvertebrates to pollution gradient is well
established, with tolerant taxa increasing in impacted conditions, while sensitive taxa …