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A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

scientific article

A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

A Metacommunity Approach to Improve Biological Assessments in Highly Dynamic Freshwater Ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

A comparative analysis of metacommunity types in the freshwater realm

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A comparative analysis reveals little evidence for niche conservatism in aquatic macrophytes among four areas on two continents

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A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels

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A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research

scientific article published in 2021

A macroecological perspective of trait patterns in stream communities

A meta-analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems

scientific article published in 2017

A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates

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A proposed unified terminology of species traits in stream ecology

A roadmap for sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services through joint conservation and restoration of northern drainage basins

scientific article published on 12 April 2022

Anthropogenic disturbances alter the relationships between environmental heterogeneity and biodiversity of stream insects

scientific article published in 2021

Anthropogenic land‒use impacts on the size structure of macroinvertebrate assemblages are jointly modulated by local conditions and spatial processes

scientific article published on 16 September 2021

Are biological classifications of headwater streams concordant across multiple taxonomic groups?

article published in 2003

Are common species sufficient in describing turnover in aquatic metacommunities along environmental and spatial gradients?

article by Jani Heino & Janne Soininen published 5 October 2010 in Limnology and Oceanography

Are higher taxa adequate surrogates for species-level assemblage patterns and species richness in stream organisms?

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Are indicator groups and cross-taxon congruence useful for predicting biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems?

scientific article published in 2010

Assembly rules and community models for unicellular organisms: patterns in diatoms of boreal streams

article published in 2005

Assessing the conservation priority of freshwater lake sites based on taxonomic, functional and environmental uniqueness

scientific article published on 2 July 2022

Average niche breadths of species in lake macrophyte communities respond to ecological gradients variably in four regions on two continents

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Bacterial metacommunity organization in a highly-connected aquatic system

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Beta diversity of stream diatoms at two hierarchical spatial scales: implications for biomonitoring

Beta diversity of stream insects differs between boreal and subtropical regions, but land use does not generally cause biotic homogenization

scientific article published in 2021

Bioassessment in a metacommunity context: Are diatom communities structured solely by species sorting?

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Biogeographical Patterns of Species Richness and Abundance Distribution in Stream Diatoms Are Driven by Climate and Water Chemistry

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Biological surrogates: A word of caution

scientific article published in 2018

Biotic interactions hold the key to understanding metacommunity organisation

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Can information from citizen science data be used to predict biodiversity in stormwater ponds?

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Can taxonomic and functional metrics explain variation in the ecological uniqueness of ecologically-associated animal groups in a modified rainforest?

scientific article published on 23 November 2019

Change in beta diversity of riverine fish during and after supra-seasonal drought

scientific article published in 2022

Changes in multiple facets of macroinvertebrate alpha diversity are linked to afforestation in a subtropical riverine natural reserve

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Changes in the functional features of macrophyte communities and driving factors across a 70-year period

scientific article published on 04 January 2020

Characterising functional strategies and trait space of freshwater macroinvertebrates

scientific article published on 19 July 2022

Characterising functional trait diversity and trait-environment relationships in fish assemblages of boreal lakes

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Characterizing macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in relation to stream size and tributary position

scientific article published in 2005

Circumpolar patterns of Arctic freshwater fish biodiversity: A baseline for monitoring

Climate change and freshwater biodiversity: detected patterns, future trends and adaptations in northern regions

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Climate change and the future distributions of aquatic macrophytes across boreal catchments

Combining taxon-by-trait and taxon-by-site matrices for analysing trait patterns of macroinvertebrate communities: a rejoinder to Monaghan & Soares ()

Community size affects the signals of selection and ecological drift on biodiversity

Community size can affect the signals of ecological drift and niche selection on biodiversity

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Complex metacommunity structure for benthic invertebrates in a low-diversity coastal system

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Conservation of freshwater macroinvertebrate biodiversity in tropical regions

Context dependency and metacommunity structuring in boreal headwater streams

scientific article published in 2011

Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities

Correlates of different facets and components of beta diversity in stream organisms

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

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Cross-Taxon Congruence of Taxonomic and Functional Beta-Diversity Facets Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

scientific article published in 2022

Cross‐taxon congruence of multiple diversity facets of freshwater assemblages is determined by large‐scale processes across China

scholarly article

Current climate overrides historical effects on species richness and range size of freshwater plants in Europe and North America

scientific article published in 2020

DISPERSE, a trait database to assess the dispersal potential of European aquatic macroinvertebrates

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Damming affects riverine macroinvertebrate metacommunity dynamics: Insights from taxonomic and functional beta diversity

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Determinants of macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: regional and local influences

scientific article published in 2003

Different responses of incidence-weighted and abundance-weighted multiple facets of macroinvertebrate beta diversity to urbanization in a subtropical river system

scientific article published in 2022

Different responses of taxonomic and functional structures of stream macroinvertebrate communities to local stressors and regional factors in a subtropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Different roles for geography, energy and environment in determining three facets of freshwater molluscan beta diversity at broad spatial scales

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Different species trait groups of stream diatoms show divergent responses to spatial and environmental factors in a subarctic drainage basin

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Differential speciation rates, colonization time and niche conservatism affect community assembly across adjacent biogeographical regions

scientific article published on 3 June 2021

Differently dispersing organism groups show contrasting beta diversity patterns in a dammed subtropical river basin

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Discriminating the effects of local stressors from climatic factors and dispersal processes on multiple biodiversity dimensions of macroinvertebrate communities across subtropical drainage basins

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Disentangling drivers of temporal changes in urban pond macroinvertebrate diversity

scientific article published on 15 January 2024

Disentangling multi-scale environmental effects on stream microbial communities

Disentangling the correlates of species and site contributions to beta diversity in dung beetle assemblages

scientific article published in 2018

Disentangling the effects of dispersal mode on the assembly of macroinvertebrate assemblages in a heterogeneous highland region

Dispersal–niche continuum index: a new quantitative metric for assessing the relative importance of dispersal versus niche processes in community assembly

scientific article published in 2020

Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

scientific article published in 2022

Distance decay 2.0 – a global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

scientific article published on 19 March 2021

Distance decay of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in a mountain river network: Do dispersal routes and dispersal ability matter?

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Disturbance‐driven alteration of patch connectivity determines local biodiversity recovery within metacommunities

scientific article published in 2022

Do the ecological drivers of lake littoral communities match and lead to congruence between organism groups?

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Does catchment geodiversity foster stream biodiversity?

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Does dispersal ability affect the relative importance of environmental control and spatial structuring of littoral macroinvertebrate communities? ⬇️

scientific article published on September 8, 2012

Does environmental heterogeneity affect species co-occurrence in ecological guilds across stream macroinvertebrate metacommunities?

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Does trait‐based joint species distribution modelling reveal the signature of competition in stream macroinvertebrate communities?

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Drivers of beta diversity of macroinvertebrate communities in tropical forest streams

Ecological correlates of riverine diatom and macroinvertebrate alpha and beta diversity across Arctic Fennoscandia

scientific article published in 2020

Ecological drivers of multiple facets of beta diversity in a lentic macroinvertebrate metacommunity

Ecological filters and variability in stream macroinvertebrate communities: do taxonomic and functional structure follow the same path?

scientific article published in 2007

Ecological indicators for aquatic biodiversity, ecosystem functions, human activities and climate change

scientific article published in 2021

Ecological niche features override biological traits and taxonomic relatedness as predictors of occupancy and abundance in lake littoral macroinvertebrates

scientific article

Ecological processes underlying community assembly of aquatic bacteria and macroinvertebrates under contrasting climates on the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 02 November 2019

Ecological uniqueness and species richness of zooplankton in subtropical floodplain lakes

scientific article published in 2020

Ecological uniqueness of stream and lake diatom communities shows different macroecological patterns

scientific article published in 2017

Editorial: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Metacommunities - Implications for Conservation and Management

scientific article published in 2021

Effects of dam construction and fish invasion on the species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of fish assemblages in the Yellow River Basin

Effects of dispersal mode on the environmental and spatial correlates of nestedness and species turnover in pond communities

scientific article published in 2017

Elements of lake macrophyte metacommunity structure: Global variation and community‐environment relationships

Elements of metacommunity structure and community-environment relationships in stream organisms

Elements of metacommunity structure of diatoms and macroinvertebrates within stream networks differing in environmental heterogeneity

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Elements of regional beetle faunas: faunal variation and compositional breakpoints along climate, land cover and geographical gradients

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Environmental degradation results in contrasting changes in the assembly processes of stream bacterial and fungal communities

scientific article published in 2017

Environmental determinants of lake macrophyte communities in Baikal Siberia

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Environmental factors are primary determinants of different facets of pond macroinvertebrate alpha and beta diversity in a human-modified landscape

scholarly article

Environmental filtering and spatial effects on metacommunity organisation differ among littoral macroinvertebrate groups deconstructed by biological traits

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Environmental heterogeneity, dispersal mode, and co‐occurrence in stream macroinvertebrates ⬇️

scientific article published on January 9, 2013

Eutrophication causes invertebrate biodiversity loss and decreases cross-taxon congruence across anthropogenically-disturbed lakes

scientific article published in 2021

Expanding the ecological niche approach: Relationships between variability in niche position and species richness

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Exploring multiple presence-absence data structures in ecology

scientific article published in 2018

Exploring species and site contributions to beta diversity in stream insect assemblages

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Freshwater biodiversity at regional extent: determinants of macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness in headwater streams

scientific article published in 2011

Freshwater diatoms as environmental indicators: evaluating the effects of eutrophication using species morphology and biological indices

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Frog community composition-environment relationships vary over time: Are snapshot studies of metacommunity dynamics useful?

scientific article published in 2021

From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene

scientific article published in 2021

Functional biodiversity of macroinvertebrate assemblages along major ecological gradients of boreal headwater streams

scientific article published in 2005

Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research

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Geographical patterns of micro-organismal community structure: are diatoms ubiquitously distributed across boreal streams?

scientific article published in 2010

Geography of global change and species richness in the North

Global patterns and determinants of lake macrophyte taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Global patterns in the metacommunity structuring of lake macrophytes: regional variations and driving factors

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

Global variation in the beta diversity of lake macrophytes is driven by environmental heterogeneity rather than latitude

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Hierarchical decomposition of trait patterns of macroinvertebrate communities in subarctic streams

Highly variable species distribution models in a subarctic stream metacommunity: Patterns, mechanisms and implications

Historical contingency via priority effects counteracts environmental change on metacommunity dynamics across decades

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How Essential Biodiversity Variables and remote sensing can help national biodiversity monitoring

article by Petteri Vihervaara et al published April 2017 in Global Ecology and Conservation

Human land‐uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production

scientific article published on 11 April 2023

Human pressure drives biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands

scientific article published in 2022

Indicator groups and congruence of assemblage similarity, species richness and environmental relationships in littoral macroinvertebrates

Inferring the effects of potential dispersal routes on the metacommunity structure of stream insects: as the crow flies, as the fish swims or as the fox runs?

scientific article published on 18 May 2015

Integrating behavioral, population and large-scale approaches for understanding stream insect communities

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Integrating dispersal proxies in ecological and environmental research in the freshwater realm

Invasion by an exotic grass species homogenizes native freshwater plant communities

scientific article published on 9 January 2023

Invasion impacts and dynamics of a European‐wide introduced species

scientific article published on 16 May 2022

Invasive crayfish alter the long‐term functional biodiversity of lotic macroinvertebrate communities

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Is catchment geodiversity a useful surrogate of aquatic plant species richness?

scientific article published on 2 July 2019

Knitting patterns of biodiversity, range size and body size in aquatic beetle faunas: significant relationships but slightly divergent drivers

scientific article published in 2019

Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Land conversion induced by urbanization leads to taxonomic and functional homogenization of a river macroinvertebrate metacommunity

scientific article published in 2022

Little evidence of range size conservatism in freshwater plants across two continents

scientific article published on 19 February 2021

Local environment and space drive multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate beta diversity

Local-regional diversity relationship varies with spatial scale in lotic diatoms

Loss of lateral hydrological connectivity impacts multiple facets of molluscan biodiversity in floodplain lakes

scientific article published in 2022

Macroecology of ground beetles: Species richness, range size and body size show different geographical patterns across a climatically heterogeneous area

scientific article published on 25 August 2019

Macroecology of macrophytes in the freshwater realm: Patterns, mechanisms and implications

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Metacommunities in river networks: The importance of network structure and connectivity on patterns and processes

Metacommunity ecology meets bioassessment: Assessing spatio-temporal variation in multiple facets of macroinvertebrate diversity in human-influenced large lakes

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Metacommunity ecology meets biogeography: effects of geographical region, spatial dynamics and environmental filtering on community structure in aquatic organisms

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects

Metacommunity patterns of highly diverse stream midges: gradients, chequerboards, and nestedness, or is there only randomness?

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Metacommunity structuring in a highly-connected aquatic system: effects of dispersal, abiotic environment and grazing pressure on microalgal guilds

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Metacommunity structuring in stream networks: roles of dispersal mode, distance type, and regional environmental context

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

Microbial diversity and community-environment relationships in boreal streams

Multi-decadal improvements in the ecological quality of European rivers are not consistently reflected in biodiversity metrics

scientific article published on 26 January 2024

Multiple facets of macrophyte beta diversity are shaped by environmental factors, directional spatial processes, and connectivity across tropical floodplain lakes in the dry season

scientific article published on 21 May 2021

Multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate alpha diversity are driven by different ecological factors across an extensive altitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Multitrophic biodiversity patterns and environmental descriptors of sub‐Arctic lakes in northern Europe

Niche position drives interspecific variation in occupancy and abundance in a highly-connected lake system

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No biotic homogenisation across decades but consistent effects of landscape position and pH on macrophyte communities in boreal lakes

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Non-biting midges in biodiversity conservation and environmental assessment: Findings from boreal freshwater ecosystems

scientific article published in 2011

Nutrient enrichment homogenizes taxonomic and functional diversity of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in shallow lakes

scientific article published in 2018

Nutrient enrichment is related to two facets of beta diversity for stream invertebrates across the United States

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Nutrient enrichment modifies temperature-biodiversity relationships in large-scale field experiments

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Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: the Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study

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Parallels and contrasts between intermittently freezing and drying streams: From individual adaptations to biodiversity variation

Phylogenetic diversity of regional beetle faunas at high latitudes: patterns, drivers and chance along ecological gradients

Predictability of stream insect distributions is dependent on niche position, but not on biological traits or taxonomic relatedness of species

article by Jani Heino & Guillermo de Mendoza published 26 February 2016 in Ecography

Predicting beta diversity of terrestrial and aquatic beetles using ecogeographical variables: insights from the replacement and richness difference components

scientific article published on 4 December 2018

Predicting climate effects on aquatic true bugs in a tropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2021

Predicting occupancy and abundance by niche position, niche breadth and body size in stream organisms

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

Rarity in freshwater vascular plants across Europe and North America: Patterns, mechanisms and future scenarios

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Reconceptualising the beta diversity-environmental heterogeneity relationship in running water systems

Regional occupancy in unicellular eukaryotes: a reflection of niche breadth, habitat availability or size-related dispersal capacity?

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Relationships between distribution and abundance vary with spatial scale and ecological group in stream bryophytes

Relationships between local population persistence, local abundance and regional occupancy of species: distribution patterns of diatoms in boreal streams

article published in 2005

Relationships between multiple biological groups and classification schemes in a Neotropical floodplain

scientific article published in 2012

Relative roles of spatial processes, natural factors and anthropogenic stressors in structuring a lake macroinvertebrate metacommunity

scientific article published on 10 June 2017

Responses of taxonomic distinctness and species diversity indices to anthropogenic impacts and natural environmental gradients in stream macroinvertebrates

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Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity

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Sampling effort and information quality provided by rare and common species in estimating assemblage structure

scientific article published in March 2020

Scale‐dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems

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Scaling biodiversity responses to hydrological regimes

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Searching for biodiversity indicators in running waters: do bryophytes, macroinvertebrates, and fish show congruent diversity patterns?

scholarly article by Jani Heino et al published February 2005 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Seasonal changes in metacommunity assembly mechanisms of benthic macroinvertebrates in a subtropical river basin

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Seasonal shifts in the assembly dynamics of benthic macroinvertebrate and diatom communities in a subtropical river

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Seasonal variation in the metacommunity structure of benthic macroinvertebrates in a large river-connected floodplain lake

scientific article published in 2022

Securing Biodiversity, Functional Integrity, and Ecosystem Services in Drying River Networks (DRYvER)

scientific article published on 31 December 2021

Shifts in food webs and niche stability shaped survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous

scientific article published on 9 December 2022

Shortfalls in our understanding of the causes and consequences of functional and phylogenetic variation of freshwater communities across continents

scientific article published in 2023

Spatial extent, regional specificity and metacommunity structuring in lake macrophytes

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Spatial processes determine planktonic diatom metacommunity structure of headwater streams

Spatial scale affects community concordance among fishes, benthic macroinvertebrates, and bryophytes in streams

scientific article published in February 2006

Spatial scale drives diversity patterns of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in tropical estuaries

scientific article published in 2020

Spatio-temporal variation in water beetle assemblages across temperate freshwater ecosystems

Spatio‐temporal variation of macroinvertebrate metacommunity organization in a monsoon‐climate region

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Species richness and taxonomic distinctness of lake macrophytes along environmental gradients in two continents

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Species richness at the guild level: effects of species pool and local environmental conditions on stream macroinvertebrate communities

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Species sorting determines variation in the community composition of common and rare macrophytes at various spatial extents

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Species-poor and low-lying sites are more ecologically unique in a hyperdiverse Amazon region: Evidence from multiple taxonomic groups

scientific article published in 2018

Specific Niche Characteristics Facilitate the Invasion of an Alien Fish Invader in Boreal Streams

article by Kai Korsu et al published 2012 in International Journal of Ecology

Spring bryophytes in forested landscapes: Land use effects on bryophyte species richness, community structure and persistence

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Stochasticity overrides deterministic processes in structuring macroinvertebrate communities in a plateau aquatic system

scientific article published on 22 July 2021

Streams and riparian forests depend on each other: A review with a special focus on microbes

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Subtropical streams harbour higher genus richness and lower abundance of insects compared to boreal streams, but scale matters

Surveying biodiversity in protected and managed areas: Algae, macrophytes and macroinvertebrates in boreal forest streams

scientific article published in 2009

Temporal beta diversity of lake plants is determined by concomitant changes in environmental factors across decades

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Temporal variation in phytoplankton beta diversity patterns and metacommunity structures across subtropical reservoirs

scholarly article by Juliana Wojciechowski et al published 20 January 2017 in Freshwater Biology

Temporally stable abundance-occupancy relationships and occupancy frequency patterns in stream insects

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The added value of geodiversity indices in explaining variation of stream macroinvertebrate diversity

scientific article published in 2018

The effect of urbanization on freshwater macroinvertebrates – Knowledge gaps and future research directions

scientific article published in 2019

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

scientific article published on 10 March 2023

The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds

scientific article published in 2021

The importance of metacommunity ecology for environmental assessment research in the freshwater realm

scientific article published on 03 September 2012

The longest fragment drives fish beta diversity in fragmented river networks: Implications for river management and conservation

scientific article published on 25 December 2020

The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt

The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways

The role of environmental conditions, climatic factors and spatial processes in driving multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate beta diversity in a climatically heterogeneous mountain region

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

The strength of species sorting of phytoplankton communities is temporally variable in subtropical reservoirs

scholarly article by Juliana Wojciechowski et al published 1 June 2017 in Hydrobiologia

The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia

Toward More Integrated Ecosystem Research in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments

Towards understanding the organisation of metacommunities in highly dynamic ecological systems

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Two roles for ecological surrogacy: Indicator surrogates and management surrogates

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Understanding environmental change through the lens of trait-based, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems

Understanding macroinvertebrate metacommunity organization using a nested study design across a mountainous river network

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Unravelling the correlates of species richness and ecological uniqueness in a metacommunity of urban pond insects

scientific article published in 2017

Unravelling the drivers of aquatic communities using disparate organismal groups and different taxonomic levels

scientific article published on 09 July 2015

Unravelling the joint effects of flow regime, climatic variability and dispersal mode on beta diversity of riverine communities

Untangling the assembly of littoral macroinvertebrate communities through measures of functional and phylogenetic alpha diversity

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Untangling the determinants of macrophyte beta diversity in tropical floodplain lakes: insights from ecological uniqueness and species contributions

scientific article published in 2020

Untangling the relationships among regional occupancy, species traits, and niche characteristics in stream invertebrates

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Using traits to explain interspecific variation in diatom occupancy and abundance across lakes and streams

scientific article published in 2019

Variability of lotic macroinvertebrate assemblages and stream habitat characteristics across hierarchical landscape classifications

scientific article published on 30 July 2004

Variation in niche parameters along the diversity gradient of unicellular eukaryote assemblages

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Weak relationships between landscape characteristics and multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate biodiversity in a boreal drainage basin

scientific article published in 2008

What to Survey? A Systematic Review of the Choice of Biological Groups in Assessing Ecological Impacts of Metals in Running Waters

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

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