Summary ......................................................... 6
Zusammenfassung ................................................. 8
Chapter One
General introduction
Biodiversity effects of extreme events ...................... 10
Functional biodiversity research ............................ 12
Research objects: ground beetles in floodplains ............. 13
Purpose and structure of the dissertation ................... 15
Study area & general methodology ............................ 16
Chapter Two
Community resilience following extreme disturbances: the
response of ground beetles to a severe summer flood in a
Central European lowland stream ............................. 20
Chapter Three
Habitat disturbance and hydrological parameters determine
the body size and reproductive strategy of alluvial ground
beetles ..................................................... 45
Chapter Four
More species, but all do the same - Contrasting effects
of ground beetle species and functional diversity to flood
disturbance ................................................. 68
Chapter Five
Resilience through redundancy? Effects of functionally
equivalent species on ground beetle functional diversity
after an extreme flood ...................................... 88
Chapter Six
Synopsis ................................................... 112
Bibliography .................................................. 118
List of figures ............................................... 131
List of tables ................................................ 132
Curriculum Vitae .............................................. 133
Publications .................................................. 135
Oral presentations ............................................ 137
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