Benthic invertebrates nestedness in flood and drought periods in a Neotropical floodplain: looking for the richest environments
Abstract Aim Floodplains are among the most biologically diverse systems in the world, where hydrological regime is recognized as crucial to structure aquatic communities. We predicted that i) structure of benthic metacommunity is nested in the drought and random in the flood season in a Neotropica...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Limnologia
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Series: | Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-975X2016000100307&lng=en&tlng=en |