“…Convergence in these three life history strategies has been recognized for Neotropical, North American and European freshwater fish (Winemiller, 1989;Vila-Gispert et al, 2002;Mims et al, 2010), and North American marine fish (Winemiller, Rose, 1992), as well as for fish communities in different latitudinal and hydrological gradients (Lamouroux et al, 2002;Tedesco, Huguery, 2006;Tedesco et al, 2008;Mims et al, 2010;Olden, Kennard, 2010). These studies emphasize the differences of fish responses to hydrological variation based on their life history strategies: periodic strategies are favored in highly seasonal drainage basins, the equilibrium strategies in hydrologically stable drainage basins, and the opportunistic strategies in habitats with high hydrologic variability (DeAngelis et al, 1997(DeAngelis et al, , 2005(DeAngelis et al, , 2010Winemiller, 1989Winemiller, , 2005King et al, 2003;Tedesco, Huguery, 2006;Tedesco et al, 2008;Olden, Kennard, 2010), but only few studies have empirically tested these predictions Mims, Olden, 2012).…”