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. 2016 May 19;371(1694):20150274. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0274

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Figure 6. — Hypothetical effects of extreme events on food web structure in a riverine landscape. The global web (top left) is altered by the hydrology of the system such that different regional (e.g. lower reaches and floodplain habitats) or local (e.g. individual headwater streams) communities are found under drought (top right), baseflow (middle right) or flood (bottom right) conditions. Note that increased habitat volume and beta diversity may increase regional web size under flood conditions, even if local webs may lose species.