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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Main Authors: Gisele Daiane Pinha, Danielle Katharine Petsch, Flávio Henrique Ragonha, Renata Guglielmetti, Camila Gentilin Bilia, Rafael Prandini Tramonte, Alice Michiyo Takeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Limnologia
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