David A. Lytle

TL;DR: Here, three modes of adaptation are identified that plants and animals use to survive floods and/or droughts and the rate of evolution in response to flow regime alteration remains an open question.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose to organize riparian plants into non-phylogenetic groupings of species with shared traits that are related to components of hydrologic regime: life history, reproductive strategy, morphology, adaptations to fluvial disturbance and adaptations to water availability.

TL;DR: A conceptual model is developed that predicts that the explanatory power of the river network peaks in mesic systems for obligate aquatic dispersers, and proposes directions of future avenues of research, including the use of manipulative field and laboratory experiments that test metacommunity theory in river networks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a stochastic, density-dependent population model for the Yampa River in the western United States and found that fertility of seedlings and younger trees followed a boom-bust cycle driven by high flood mortalities while reproductive adult abundance fol- lowed a less erratic 5-15-yr periodicity driven by multiyear sequences of flows favorable to stand recruitment.

TL;DR: This framework provides tools for examining trends at a variety of temporal scales, seasonal and beyond, and predicted that temporal beta diversity should be maximized in highly predictable and highly seasonal climates, and that low degrees of seasonality, predictability, or both would lower diversity in characteristic ways.