The number of community types occurring within landscapes is an important, but often
unprotected, component of biological diversity. Generally applicable protocols for …

Local species richness is a function of many factors operating at multiple spatial and
temporal scales. We examined stream fish communities from regions throughout Virginia to …

Evaluations of stream geomorphic condition may increase our understanding of the
composite effects of human‐induced habitat change on fish communities. Using systematic …

Aim To examine the roles of local and regional environmental variables and biotic
interactions in determining the structure of local stream fish assemblages, and to compare …

Understanding factors that regulate the assembly of communities is a main focus of ecology.
Human‐engineered habitats, such as reservoirs, may provide insight into these assembly …

Owing to the lack of information about the distribution patterns of many taxonomic groups,
biodiversity conservation strategies commonly rely on a surrogate taxa approach for …

How the distribution and abundance of organisms vary across environmental gradients can
reveal factors important in structuring aquatic communities. We sampled the littoral-zone fish …

If organisms move beyond the boundaries of local sampling units, regional metacommunity
dynamics could undermine the ability of bioassessment studies to characterize local …

Effects of local environmental influences on the structure of fish assemblages were
evaluated from 159 sites in two regions of the Great Plains with limited anthropogenic …

Community concordance describes similarity in distributions and abundances of organisms
from different taxonomic groups across a region of interest, with highly concordant …