Longitudinal environmental heterogeneity and directionality of the water movement are key
features that may exert contrasting forces on riverine plankton assembly. Directionality …

In an attempt to halt and reverse biodiversity losses, the European Commission has
proposed a new regulation, the Nature Restoration Law (NRL). It could become a …

Hydrological processes of floodplains in large river-lake systems are subjected to strong
flood pulses from catchment flows and lake inundations. Hydrological connectivity (HC) is …

This study provides a new perspective on understanding the intricacies of water‐mediated
connectivity in ecosystems, bridging landscape ecology and geomorphology through …

As significant ecosystem disturbances flooding events are expected to increase in both
frequency and severity due to climate change, underscoring the critical need to understand …

The flood storage of lakes and reservoirs plays an important role in flood regulation and
control in floodplains. However, the flood storage capacity of lakes and reservoirs is …

Advances in geodetic altimetry instruments are providing more accurate measurements,
thus enabling satellite missions to produce useful data for narrow rivers and streams …

The river floodplain system is the basis of material and energy exchange between the river
and floodplain in a region, and its connectivity is an important basis for water health …

The metacommunity concept provides a theoretical framework that aims at explaining
organism distributions by a combination of environmental filtering, dispersal, and drift …

Extreme floods seriously affect the biodiversity of terrestrial animals (birds, mammals,
reptiles, amphibians, and insects). The degree of impact depends on many factors, eg …