Adaptation to natural flow regimes.

By David A. Lytle, N. LeRoy Poff. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2004

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Long-term macroinvertebrate responses to climate change: implications for biological assessment in mediterranean-climate streams (2010, background): “Benthic macroinvertebrates are sensitive to changes in temperature, precipitation, and the associated flow regimes (Bunn and Arthington 2002, Lytle and Poff 2004), which should make them particularly responsive to the effects of climate change.”
The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia (2019, background): “In river ecosystems, floods and droughts are thought to be the major drivers of community organization and resilience (Resh et al., 1988; Lytle & Poff, 2004; Death, 2010).”
Seasonal flow variation allows 'time-sharing' by disparate aquatic insect communities in montane desert streams (2007, background): “Streams in arid environments, however, are subject to extreme seasonal variation in flow, temperature, water chemistry and productivity (Gray, 1980; Poff & Ward, 1989; Boulton & Lake, 1992a; Stanley et al., 1994; Lytle & Poff, 2004).”
Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “It is the return time of an extreme event relative to the generation times and life histories of taxa that is key here (Lytle and Poff, 1994).”
Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers: new challenges and research opportunities: Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers (2010, background): “There is now wide recognition that a dynamic, variable water regime is required to maintain the native biodiversity and ecological processes characteristic of every river and wetland ecosystem (Poff et al., 1997; Postel & Richter, 2003; Lytle & Poff, 2004).”
Engineer pioneer plants respond to and affect geomorphic constraints similarly along water-terrestrial interfaces world-wide (2015, background): “…environments seed production and release by 224 riparian Populus and Salix spp. coincides with the period following predictable annual 225 floods (Lytle & Poff, 2004; Stella et al., 2006) so that their small, buoyant seeds are 226 transported by water and wind to newly-formed bare sediment…”
Broad-scale patterns of invertebrate richness and community composition in temporary rivers: effects of flow intermittence (2014, background): “357 Because rivers with natural flow regimes are characterized by large variations in discharge, 358 including drought periods (Lake 2003, Lytle and Poff 2004), drying may not be an 359 evolutionary force restricted to temporary rivers as previously thought (c.f., Williams 2006, 360 Steward et al.…”
Hydrology shapes taxonomic and functional structure of desert stream invertebrate communities (2015, background): “If hydrology acts as a strong environmental filter, species should tend to occur at sites for which they are evolutionarily suited (Poff 1997, Lytle and Poff 2004), thereby resulting in lower functional richness and diversity in stream reaches with intermittent flow.”
Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: A review of foundation concepts and current understandings (2011, background): “, cycles of flooding and drought) have been identified as significant evolutionary factors in the context of fluvial dynamics (Lytle, 2001, 2002; Karrenberg et al., 2002; Lytle and Poff, 2004).”
The challenge of providing environmental flow rules to sustain river ecosystems. (2006, background): “Key words: benchmarking; classification; flow-ecological relationships; flow variability; natural flow regime paradigm; river ecosystem condition.”
Large‐scale intraspecific variation in life‐history traits of European freshwater fish (2006, background): “It is also possible that the hydrological characteristics of rivers and lakes are so diverse that they influence life-history traits in a variety of ways (Lytle & Poff, 2003).”
The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways (2018, background): “However, these dispersal events are probably rare occurrences 376 given risks of exposure such as desiccation and increased predation pressure in the terrestrial 377 landscape (Lytle & Poff, 2004).”