Disentangling the factors governing community structure across various spatial and
temporal scales is a core task in community ecology and biogeography, because it could …

Environmental filtration and spatial processes are associated with variation in ecological
communities and biodiversity; however, their relative importance to species beta diversity at …

A more profound comprehension of various facets of biodiversity is essential for advancing
sustainable governance of biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services. In this study …

Freshwater ecosystems harbour a disproportionately high biodiversity relative to their area,
being also one of the most threatened ecosystem types worldwide. However, our capacity to …

The metacommunity concept has been widely used to explain the biodiversity patterns at
various scales. It considers the influences of both local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic …

Anthropogenic disturbances have become one of the primary causes of biodiversity decline
in freshwater ecosystems. Beyond the well-documented loss of taxon richness in …

Conversion of forests to urban land-use in the processes of urbanization is one of the major
causes of biotic homogenization (ie, decline in beta diversity) in freshwater ecosystems …

Environmental, spatial, and temporal factors play an important role in beta diversity in
metacommunities. Most studies are based only on species identity, and little is known about …

To improve our understanding on the temporal aspects of metacommunity structure, we
focused on benthic macroinvertebrates collected seasonally (ie, wet, drying, dry and …

Numerous community indices have been developed to quantify the various aspects of
communities. However, indices including functional aspects have been less focused on …