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Trends in studies of Brazilian stream fish assemblages

... on Brazilian stream ﬁsh assemblages grew exponen- tially between 1987 and 2012, with a tipping point around the year 2000, just after the journal Oecologia Brasiliensis published a special issue on ... See full document

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The influence of environmental variables on the functional structure of headwater stream fish assemblages: a study of two tropical basins in Central Brazil

... Several studies pointed out the importance of abiotic factors in shaping fish assemblages’ structure (Poff & Allan, 1995; Peres-Neto, 2004; Hoeinghaus et ...occurrence in ... See full document

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Trophic structure of a fish community in Bananal stream subbasin in Brasília National Park, Cerrado biome (Brazilian Savanna), DF

... 2006). Studies on the feeding habits of species the genus Heptapterus revealed that they were invertivorous (Sabino & Castro, 1990; Castro & Casatti, 1997; Uieda et ...consumption of aquatic ... See full document

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Fish assemblages in stream stretches occupied by cattail (Typhaceae, Angiospermae) stands in Southeast Brazil

... other studies carried out in stretches without cattail influences (Casatti et ...range of anthropogenic impacts, making it difficult to identify factors associated to oxygen depletion, but ... See full document

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Longitudinal patterns of fish assemblages in mountain streams from tropical forest biome

... occurrence of T. aff. davisi found in the three streams, and as the volume of water increases, the assembly becomes characterized by the presence of other species which exploit the environment ... See full document

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Composition, abundance and biomass of a fish assemblage in a southern Brazilian coastal stream during polyhalineeuhaline condition

... streams of southernmost Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul state, are marked by a period of regular marine intrusion resultant from intense oceanic ...winds. In the present study we aimed to investigate the ... See full document

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Use of functional traits to assess changes in stream fish assemblages across a habitat gradient

... identification of traits that were significantly associated with a gradient of physical habitat ...evaluation of the spatial distribution of functional groups (Teresa et ...However, in ... See full document

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Structure and integrity of fish assemblages in streams associated to conservation units in Central Brazil

... 81.8% of APAs fish species. This fact is also widely observed in streams of the upper rio Paraná system (Castro et ...patterns of Brazil and the Neotropics (Lowe-McConnell, 1987; ... See full document

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Effects of land use intensification on fish assemblages in Mediterranean climate streams

... increase of human-induced disturbance in sampled ...resulted in severe disturbances only reflected by specific ...increasing trends, but differences were only significant relative to the ... See full document

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Longitudinal habitat disruption in Neotropical streams: fish assemblages under the influence of culverts

... one of each type (one box and one circular) indicated variations in the species abundance, richness, and diversity between upstream and downstream stretches of the circular culvert in the ... See full document

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Body size and geographic range do not explain long term variation in fish populations: a Bayesian phylogenetic approach to testing assembly processes in stream fish assemblages.

... these studies to indicate traits that may not covary with long term population ...observations of the dataset support a generally lower abundance among taxa that are larger and generally higher abundance ... See full document

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Diel variation in the structure of fish assemblages in south western Amazon streams

... differ in terms of when they exploit the resource (Chesson, ...Previous studies have shown that the composition of fish populations can vary between light and dark periods (Volpato ... See full document

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Vertical structure of very nearshore larval fish assemblages in a temperate rocky coast

... diVerences in total larval abundances and diversity indexes were tested with one-way ANOVA and Student-Newman–Keuls tests for post hoc compar- isons, when homoscedascity assumptions were met after being tested ... See full document

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Metrics derived from fish assemblages as indicators of environmental degradation in Cerrado streams

... summarized in three steps. In step one, we removed colinear variables from environmental and fish- based metric data, performing Pearson pairwise correlations in each matrix and removing ... See full document

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Diel variation in fish assemblages in tidal creeks in southern Brazil

... increase in the abundance of the species in nocturnal ...movement of in- dividuals from other regions into the tidal ...Most of the species that were found only during the day or ... See full document

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Zooplankton assemblages in eutrophic reservoirs of the Brazilian semi-arid

... Occurrence of toxin- producing cyanobacteria blooms in a Brazilian semiarid ...reservoir. Brazilian Journal of Biology, ...limitation in three hypertrophic Dutch lakes: evidence ... See full document

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Simple relationships to predict attributes of fish assemblages in patches of submerged macrophytes

... habitats of Rosana Reservoir, Paranapanema River, and simple correlation analyses were ...performed. Fish richness and abundance were highly correlated with all variables (R = ...observed in all ... See full document

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The organisation of fish assemblages in the regulated Lima basin, Northern Portugal

... The former harboured two kinds of fish assemblages: those closer to the river mouth were dominated by the cyprinids Iberian chub (Squalius carolitertii) and Iberian nase (Chondrosto[r] ... See full document

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Riparian ecotones and spatial variation of fish assemblages in Portuguese lowland streams

... [r] ... See full document

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Explaining dissimilarities in macroinvertebrate assemblages among stream sites using environmental variables

... group of organisms, and spatial scale. In this study I assessed whether dissimilarities among assemblages of stream macroinvertebrates are related to differences in environmental ... See full document

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