Environmental, spatial and phylogenetic determinants of fish life‐history traits and functional composition of Australian rivers

Summary The biogeography of freshwater fish is determined in part by large‐scale filters such as phylogenetic history, the spatial arrangement of catchments and environmental variability. Species are filtered from the regional pool if they possess a combination of functional traits enabling them to persist in the local environment. This article aims to quantify the relative importance of these large‐scale filters in determining spatial variation...