“…Wetlands are highly biodiverse and productive ecosystems, yet are under increasing pressure from global environmental change via multiple stressors that often act synergistically (Dalu, Wasserman, & Dalu, ; Mabidi, Bird, & Perissinotto, ; White, Donohue, Emmerson, & O'Connor, ). From a biodiversity perspective, ephemeral wetlands are especially important habitats, characteristically inhabited by a rich array of specialists adapted to transient hydroperiods and that may be unable to persist in permanent aquatic ecosystems (Dalu, Wasserman, & Dalu, ; Wasserman, Alexander, Barrios‐O'Neill, Weyl, & Dalu, ). Ephemeral wetlands often provide aquatic habitats for threatened, rare and/or endemic species which are reliant on transient habitat patches within terrestrial environments (Bird et al.,; De Meester et al., ).…”