Mikołaj Piniewski (the first author of the study from Warsaw University of Life Sciences and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in 2014-2017 at PIK): "The paper provides a novel combination of systematic review and statistical methods to explore river ecological responses to floods and droughts in Europe. We extracted and analysed primary research data (82 case studies) on hydrological extreme event—ecological response associations in Europe originating from 54 papers satisfying all inclusion criteria. The results challenge conventional thinking about the importance of severity of extremes on ecological responses, which are not shown to be a dominant factor. We also pinpointed the research gaps where very little evidence can be synthesized, e.g., the effect of drought on fish and knowledge clusters, where more in-depth analyses can be made, e.g. the effects of floods on invertebrates."
More details including links to the article can be found here.
