Lakes and ponds are scattered on Earth's surface as islands in the ocean. The organisms
inhabiting these ecosystems have thus developed strategies to pass the barrier represented …

At some stage in their life cycle, most zooplankton in temporary waters produce dormant
eggs that assemble in a persistent egg bank to cope with unfavourable conditions. As part of …

Wetland restoration is increasingly important to reverse habitat degradation, recover
ecosystem services, and maintain biodiversity. To aid project design, more information is …

Adaptive learning about nature, based on observations and continual rethinking, dates back
to Native Americans in what we call Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Fast forward to …

The maintenance of biodiversity in dynamic landscapes can be explained through the
unifying concept of the metacommunity, an ecological system with a changing structure that …

Ecological restoration of aquatic ecosystems has become widespread in recent decades.
Although the recovery of biodiversity in restored wetlands has been studied from a …

Both β diversity and metacommunity structure vary in time and space. It is necessary to
examine different scales, especially in the face of extreme hydrological conditions. We …

Rotifers are one of the most important functional groups in lentic freshwaters, and mainly
structured by predation or competition from crustaceans and food availability from …

Abstract β-Diversity can be driven by different factors, and it is necessary to understand how
the characteristics of communities contribute to biodiversity. We investigated composition …

The Doñana wetlands in SW Spain constitute what remains of the original 180,000 ha of
marshland in the Guadalquivir delta. The natural wetlands are protected in the National Park …