A large body of scientific research has demonstrated a changing climate, which affects river flow regimes and extreme flood frequencies and magnitudes. The magnitude and frequency of extreme events are of critical importance in the evaluation of river systems to inform flood risk reduction under current and future conditions. The global climate projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 (CMIP5) dataset...

Disturbances cause high mortality in populations while simultaneously enhancing population growth by improving habitats. These countervailing effects make it difficult to predict population dynamics following disturbance events. To address this challenge, we derived a novel form of the logistic growth equation that permits time‐varying carrying capacity and growth rate. We combined this equation with concepts drawn from distur...

Functional trait analysis is an appealing approach to study differences among biological communities because traits determine species' responses to the environment and their impacts on ecosystem functioning. Despite a rapidly expanding quantitative literature, it remains challenging to conceptualize concurrent changes in multiple trait dimensions (“trait space”) and select quantitative functional diversity methods to test hypo...

The study of how population genetic structure is shaped by attributes of the environment is a central scientific pursuit in ecology and conservation. But limited resources may prohibit landscape genetics studies for many threatened species, particularly given the pace of current environmental change. Understanding the extent to which species' ecological strategies—their life histories, biology, and behavior—predict patterns an...