Phantom midges are characteristic inhabitants of standing waters and are well known for their diel migrations. Despite the extensive body of literature covering their ecology, there are still knowledge gaps with regards ...

Metacommunity approaches are becoming popular when analyzing factors driving species distribution at the regional scale. However, until the popularization of the variation partitioning technique it was difficult to assess ...

Body size is perhaps the simplest metric to quantify in an organism but with a powerful background in the ecological framework. The thesis focused on the study fish body size structure at different ecological and spatial ...