ArticleEcology letters2021
The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks.
Article in Ecology letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interplay Between Species Traits, Community and Environmental Context Governs Temporal Stability in Riverine Fish Populations.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Biodiversity and habitat complexity buffer the destabilizing effects of anthropogenic activities on riverine fish communities.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Article
- Potential for synergistic conservation through area-based strategies.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Barriers decouple population dynamics of riverine fish, and asynchrony of subpopulations promotes stability within fragments.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Non-perennial segments in river networks.Nature reviews. Earth & environment · 2023Article
- Modelling environmental DNA transport in rivers reveals highly resolved spatio-temporal biodiversity patterns.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The color of environmental noise in river networks.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Geographic patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic β-diversity of aquatic angiosperms in China.Plant diversity · 2023Article
- Tail-dependent spatial synchrony arises from nonlinear driver-response relationships.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Article
- Size, connectivity and edge effects of stream habitats explain spatio-temporal variation in brown trout (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Two classes of functional connectivity in dynamical processes in networks.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- Network ecology in dynamic landscapes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
14 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Dendritic habitats, such as river ecosystems, promote the persistence of species by favouring spatial asynchronous dynamics among branches. Yet, our understanding of how network topology influences metapopulation synchrony in these ecosystems remains limited. Here, we introduce the concept of fluvial synchrogram to formulate and test expectations regarding the geography of metapopulation synchrony across watersheds. By combining theoretical simulations and an extensive fish population time-series dataset across Europe, we provide evidence that fish metapopulations can be buffered against synchronous dynamics as a direct consequence of network connectivity and branching complexity. Synchrony was higher between populations connected by direct water flow and decayed faster with distance over the Euclidean than the watercourse dimension. Likewise, synchrony decayed faster with distance in headwater than mainstem populations of the same basin. As network topology and flow directionality generate fundamental spatial patterns of synchrony in fish metapopulations, empirical synchrograms can aid knowledge advancement and inform conservation strategies in complex habitats.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.