Local hydrological conditions and spatial connectivity shape invertebrate communities after rewetting in temporary rivers

Influence of Wood on Invertebrate Communities in Streams and Rivers

—Wood plays a major role in creating multiple invertebrate habitats in small streams and large rivers. In small streams, wood debris dams are instrumental in creating a step and pool profile of habitats, enhancing habitat heterogeneity, retaining organic matter, and changing current velocity. Beavers can convert sections of free-flowing streams into ponds and wetlands by killing trees and build...

Hydrological connectivity drives patterns of macroinvertebrate biodiversity in floodplain rivers of the Australian wet ⁄dry tropics

Quantitative measures for the local similarity of hydrological spatial patterns

The task of assessing similarity between data sets is common in hydrological modelling. While this has been widely researched for temporal data sets, the similarity between spatial patterns has been largely ignored. This has been due to a lack of spatial pattern data. Today there is widespread use of distributed hydrological models and increasing availability of observed spatial patterns. These...

Spatial and taxonomic correlates of species and species trait 1 assemblages in soil invertebrate communities

1 Whether dispersal limitation and phylogenetic conservatism influence soil species 2 assemblages is still a debated question. We hypothesized that spatial and phylogenetic 3 patterns influence communities in a hump-backed fashion, maximizing their impact at 4 intermediate spatial and phylogenetic distances. Species-environment relationships are blurred 5 by dispersal limitation and restricted ...

Spatial and taxonomic correlates of species and species trait assemblages in soil invertebrate communities

1 Whether dispersal limitation and phylogenetic conservatism influence soil species 2 assemblages is still a debated question. We hypothesized that spatial and phylogenetic 3 patterns influence communities in a hump-backed fashion, maximizing their impact at 4 intermediate spatial and phylogenetic distances. Species-environment relationships are blurred 5 by dispersal limitation and restricted ...