The aim of this paper is to review literature on species diversity patterns of freshwater
organisms and underlying mechanisms at large spatial scales. 2. Some freshwater taxa (eg …

Aim Global‐scale studies are required to identify broad‐scale patterns in the distributions of
species, to evaluate the processes that determine diversity and to determine how similar or …

We review the literature on the ecology, connectivity, human impacts and management of
freshwater and estuarine systems in the Great Barrier Reef catchment (424,000 km 2), on …

The detrital‐based food web of many streams and rivers plays a fundamental role in the
cycling and retention of carbon and nutrients. However, we still need to understand which …

The hypotheses that beta diversity should increase with decreasing latitude and increase
with spatial extent of a region have rarely been tested based on a comparative analysis of …

Most hypotheses explaining the general gradient of higher diversity toward the equator are
implicit or explicit about greater species packing in the tropics. However, global patterns of …

Understanding global ecological patterns and processes, from biogeochemical to
biogeographical, requires broad‐scale macrosystems context for comparing and contrasting …

Motivation Aquatic insects comprise 64% of freshwater animal diversity and are widely used
as bioindicators to assess water quality impairment and freshwater ecosystem health, as …

Predicting the ecological consequences of declining biodiversity is an urgent challenge,
particularly in freshwater habitats where species declines and losses are among the highest …

In the preface of a recent collection of review articles on tropical stream ecology, Dudgeon
(2008) stated that there is no such thing as a ''typical''tropical stream. The tropics make up …