Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all
main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify …

The River Continuum Concept (RCC) is a milestone in stream ecology because of its
comprehensive evaluation of the structure and function of lotic ecosystems. Linking stream …

Landscape perspectives in riverine ecology have been undertaken increasingly in the last
30 years, leading aquatic ecologists to develop a diverse set of approaches for …

Dispersal is an essential process in population and community dynamics, but is difficult to
measure in the field. In freshwater ecosystems, information on biological traits related to …

Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are proliferating globally, but their cumulative threat to
blocking migratory fish and the fisheries that these fish sustain has been underappreciated …

Regional‐scale ecological processes, such as the spatial flows of material, energy, and
organisms, are fundamental for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in river …

Resilience in river ecosystems requires that organisms must persist in the face of highly
dynamic hydrological and geomorphological variations. Disturbance events such as floods …

Human‐induced global change dramatically alters individual aspects of river biodiversity,
such as taxonomic, phylogenetic or functional diversity, and is predicted to lead to losses of …

A major goal in ecology is to understand mechanisms that influence patterns of biodiversity
and community assembly at various spatial and temporal scales. Understanding how …