Seedbanks are a reservoir of plant diversity from which plants can regenerate. Seedbanks are particularly important in dynamic, disturbance-prone landscapes characterised by environmental variation. Understanding the composition of seedbanks and their role in standing vegetation dynamics provides insights into past and future vegetation change, including the potential for plant invasions under different scenarios. In disturbed...

Freshwater mussels (Order Unionoida) are widespread across intermittent to perennial waterbodies on every continent except Antarctica. Their aquatic ecosystem roles span filtration, nutrient cycling, linking food webs, and habitat provision. They alter energy exchange between water column and sediments and enhance benthic productivity, which has led to them being described as ‘ecosystem engineers.’ They are also a significant...

Decomposition of plant litter is a key ecological process in streams, whose contribution to the global carbon cycle is large relative to their extent on Earth. We examined the mechanisms underlying the temperature sensitivity (TS) of instream decomposition and forecast effects of climate warming on this process. Comparing data from 41 globally distributed sites, we assessed the TS of microbial and total decomposition using lit...

Molecular (mitochondrial DNA, isozyme) and morphological diversity of freshwater mussels (Family Hyriidae) was examined at 21 sites encompassing four large river systems, across southwest Queensland, Australia. Evidence was found for two major morphological groups. One group, which occurred in every river system, closely matched a recognized species ( Velesunio ambiguus ) both morphologically and in a well‐supported lineage wi...