Increasingly, ecologists conceptualize local communities as connected to a regional species
pool rather than as isolated entities. By this paradigm, community structure is determined …

Explaining the mechanisms underlying patterns of species diversity and composition in
riverine networks is challenging. Historically, community ecologists have conceived of …

Movement is influenced by landscape structure, configuration and geometry, but measuring
distance as perceived by animals poses technical and logistical challenges. Instead …

Although populations of amphibians are declining worldwide, there is no evidence that
salamanders occupying small streams are experiencing enigmatic declines, and …

The metacommunity perspective has substantially advanced our understanding of how local
(within community) and dispersal (between community) processes influence the assembly of …

Graph theoretic approaches have received increased interest recently in landscape
planning and conservation in the terrestrial realm, because these approaches facilitate the …

Urban areas are increasing in size and human population density. The implications of
widespread urbanization are apparent for a wide variety of stream organisms, but the …

Estimating the abundance or density of populations is fundamental to the conservation and
management of species, and as landscapes become more fragmented, maintaining …

Aim Understanding the relationships between species turnover, environmental features and
the geographic distance between sites can provide important insights into the processes …

River systems form dendritic ecological networks that influence the spatial structure of
riverine communities. Few empirical studies have evaluated how regional, dispersal‐related …