What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation

KJ Willis, HJB Birks - science, 2006 - science.org
Ecosystems change in response to factors such as climate variability, invasions, and
wildfires. Most records used to assess such change are based on short-term ecological data …

The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems

G Woodward, N Bonada, LE Brown… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most research on the effects of environmental change in freshwaters has focused on
incremental changes in average conditions, rather than fluctuations or extreme events such …

[图书][B] The riverine ecosystem synthesis: toward conceptual cohesiveness in river science

JH Thorp, MC Thoms, MD Delong - 2010 - books.google.com
This book presents the most comprehensive model yet for describing the structure and
functioning of running freshwater ecosystems. Riverine Ecosystems Synthesis (RES) is a …

A century of fish growth in relation to climate change, population dynamics and exploitation

C Denechaud, S Smoliński, AJ Geffen… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Marine ecosystems, particularly in high‐latitude regions such as the Arctic, have been
significantly affected by human activities and contributions to climate change. Evaluating …

Effects of weather‐related episodic events in lakes: an analysis based on high‐frequency data

E Jennings, S Jones, L Arvola, PA Staehr… - Freshwater …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Weather‐related episodic events are typically unpredictable, and their duration is often
short. Abiotic and biological responses are often missed in routine monitoring. These …

Macroinvertebrate community response to inter‐annual and regional river flow regime dynamics

WA Monk, PJ Wood, DM Hannah… - River Research and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Spatio‐temporal variability in river flow is a fundamental control on instream habitat structure
and riverine ecosystem biodiversity and integrity. However, long‐term riverine ecological …

How low can you go? Impacts of a low‐flow disturbance on aquatic insect communities

AW Walters, DM Post - Ecological Applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The natural hydrology of streams and rivers is being extensively modified by human
activities. Water diversion, dam construction, and climate change have the potential to …

Using otolith chronologies to understand long‐term trends and extrinsic drivers of growth in fisheries

JC Martino, AJ Fowler, ZA Doubleday… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying trends and drivers of fish growth in commercial species is important for ongoing
sustainable management, but there is a critical shortage of long‐term datasets in marine …

Resilience of a stream community to extreme climatic events and long‐term recovery from a catastrophic flood

G Woodward, N Bonada, HB Feeley… - Freshwater …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Floods and droughts are predicted to increase in intensity, duration and frequency in many
future climate scenarios, yet long‐term data that track before‐and‐after responses of natural …

Mortality of developing floodplain forests subjected to a drying climate and water extraction

GJ Horner, PJ Baker, R Mac Nally… - Global change …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
River regulation and water extraction have altered the hydrology of rivers resulting in
substantial changes to forest structure and the dieback of floodplain forests globally. Forest …