Functional ecology of fish: current approaches and future challenges

S Villéger, S Brosse, M Mouchet, D Mouillot, MJ Vanni - Aquatic Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Fish communities face increasing anthropogenic pressures in freshwater and marine
ecosystems that modify their biodiversity and threaten the services they supply to human …

Environmental conditions influence eDNA persistence in aquatic systems

MA Barnes, CR Turner, CL Jerde… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Environmental DNA (eDNA) surveillance holds great promise for improving species
conservation and management. However, few studies have investigated eDNA dynamics …

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

M Alberti - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2015 - cell.com
A great challenge for ecology in the coming decades is to understand the role humans play
in eco-evolutionary dynamics. If, as emerging evidence shows, rapid evolutionary change …

Headwater streams and wetlands are critical for sustaining fish, fisheries, and ecosystem services

SAR Colvin, SMP Sullivan, PD Shirey, RW Colvin… - Fisheries, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Headwater streams and wetlands are integral components of watersheds that are critical for
biodiversity, fisheries, ecosystem functions, natural resource‐based economies, and human …

[HTML][HTML] Global functional diversity of freshwater fish is concentrated in the Neotropics while functional vulnerability is widespread

A Toussaint, N Charpin, S Brosse, S Villéger - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Worldwide biodiversity assessments have mainly focused on species richness but little is
known about the diversity of species roles, ie functional diversity, while this is a key facet to …

Consumer‐driven nutrient dynamics in freshwater ecosystems: From individuals to ecosystems

CL Atkinson, KA Capps, AT Rugenski… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The role of animals in modulating nutrient cycling [hereafter, consumer‐driven nutrient
dynamics (CND)] has been accepted as an important influence on both community structure …

Context dependency of animal resource subsidies

AL Subalusky, DM Post - Biological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The transport of resource subsidies by animals has been documented across a range of
species and ecosystems. Although many of these studies have shown that animal resource …

Goodbye to “rough fish”: paradigm shift in the conservation of native fishes

AL Rypel, P Saffarinia, CC Vaughn, L Nesper… - Fisheries, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While sometimes difficult to admit, perspectives of European and white males have
overwhelmingly dominated fisheries science and management in the USA. This dynamic is …

Urban driven phenotypic changes: empirical observations and theoretical implications for eco-evolutionary feedback

M Alberti, J Marzluff, VM Hunt - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Emerging evidence that cities drive micro-evolution raises the question of whether rapid
urbanization of Earth might impact ecosystems by causing systemic changes in functional …

Annual mass drownings of the Serengeti wildebeest migration influence nutrient cycling and storage in the Mara River

AL Subalusky, CL Dutton, EJ Rosi… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The annual migration of∼ 1.2 million wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) through the
Serengeti Mara Ecosystem is the largest remaining overland migration in the world. One of …