This book presents the most comprehensive model yet for describing the structure and
functioning of running freshwater ecosystems. Riverine Ecosystems Synthesis (RES) is a …

The relative importance of local and regional processes in shaping natural communities
within a metacommunity context has been a focus of intense debate in recent years …

River-lake system is the framework of the “sponge city”, tackling urban water problems of
flooding. Rotifers, an essential zooplankton component of water ecosystems, are sensitive to …

Hydrological conditions are responsible for the changes in lateral connectivity between the
main river channel and the floodplain lakes, a factor controlling zooplankton abundance and …

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the Yangtze floodplain in China, with dramatic
seasonal water level changes each year. The quarterly monitoring data from 2009 to 2013 …

Abstract Nansi Lake and Hongze Lake are both water storage lakes along the East Route of
the South-to-North Water Transfer project (ESNT). Frequent changes in hydrologic …

An impact of two different flood pulses on phyto-and zooplankton communities of the two
largest floodplain lakes of the Daugava River were studied in the spring and summer of …

AIM: Beta diversity is defined as the change in species composition along environmental
gradients, and in the present study, we investigated the influence of local (ie, environmental) …

In aquatic ecosystems, physical disturbances have been suggested to be one of the main
factors influencing phytoplankton structure and diversity. To elucidate whether large-scale …

The study was carried out during four years that span a gradient in hydrological connectivity
between the Danube and its sidearm system at Regelsbrunn (Austria). We evaluated the …