Fig. 1: Conceptual figure illustrating the links between resources, communities and functioning at the network scale (a); and the effects of increasing flow intermittence (drying) and network connectivity on instream resource quantity and quality, consumer community diversity or abundance and functioning rates (b). Intermittence and connectivity may also affect the corelation between instream and riparian resource, community and functioning characteristics (c) and the corelation between consumers and ecosystem functioning (i.e. the biodiversity – ecosystem functioning [BEF] relationship, d)