Climatic fluctuations can play a crucial role in shaping large‐scale patterns of biodiversity and biogeography. This study examines how climatic gradients and their variability influence family‐level temporal ecological processes that govern the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes that underlie community dynamics of riverine insects. This comparison, done across multiple continents but mostly in the Northern...

An understanding of mechanisms that influence biogeographical patterns can play a pivotal role in deciphering the intricate dynamics underlying species distributions and, ultimately, biodiversity patterns. Biodiversity composition results from both evolutionary origins and contemporary processes. However, how this combination jointly shapes biodiversity patterns and operates through mechanistic links to real‐world evidence gen...

Aim Both gene flow and genetic drift can affect the genetic diversity of interacting populations. However, the influence of the complex evolutionary histories of species may be obscured by simplified assumptions about how these roles operate in nature. To examine this issue, we mechanistically explored the relative importance of environment‐mediated gene flow and genetic drift in determining genetic structure and diversity. Lo...

Insects are the most ubiquitous and diverse group of eukaryotic organisms on Earth, forming a crucial link in terrestrial and freshwater food webs. They have recently become the subject of headlines because of observations of dramatic declines in some places. Although there are hundreds of long‐term insect monitoring programs, a global database for long‐term data on insect assemblages has so far remained unavailable. In order...