Effects of recurrent disturbances on the periphyton community downstream of a dammed watercourse

We evaluate experimentally the effect of a sequential disturbance—desiccation—on the structure and dynamics of a periphytic algal community in a semilotic environment of the Upper Paraná River floodplain. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of recurrent disturbances have a direct negative eff...

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Main Authors: JE Zanon, NR Simões, L Rodrigues
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842013000200253&lng=en&tlng=en