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Sousa V, Dala-Corte RB, Benedito E, Brejão GL, Carvalho FR, Casatti L, Cetra M, Pompeu PS, Súarez YR, Tejerina-Garro FL, Borges PP, Teresa FB. Factors affecting the transferability of bioindicators based on stream fish assemblages. Sci Total Environ 2023; 881:163417. [PMID: 37044347 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
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The development of multimetric indices (MMIs) to measure the biotic condition of aquatic habitats is based on metrics derived from biological assemblages. Considering fish assemblages, the inconsistencies in metrics responses outside of the places where they were developed limit MMI transferability and applicability to other locations, requiring local calibration. The factors behind the low transferability of these MMIs are still poorly understood. We investigated how environmental dissimilarity and spatial distance influence the transferability of metrics generated from local stream fish assemblages to other regions. We also tested whether functional and taxonomic metrics respond differently to the spatial distance. We used data from 239 fish assemblages from streams distributed across a Brazilian, the upper Parana basin and characterized each site according to the level of anthropogenic disturbance at the landscape scale using an Anthropogenic Pressure Index (API). We divided the upper Parana basin into sub-basins and used two of them to create template response models of the metrics in relation to the API. We used these response models to predict the responses outside the template sub-basins. Our response variable representing a metric of transferability was the absolute difference between metric's predicted and observed value for each site (prediction error). We thus modeled the prediction error in relation to the predictor variables that were i) the environmental dissimilarity between each site with the average of the sites from template sub-basins (climatic, topographic and soil type variables) and ii) the spatial distance (overland and watercourse distance) between each site and the center of the template sub-basin. We found that errors in metric predictions were associated with both environmental dissimilarity and spatial distance. Furthermore, functional and taxonomic metrics responded equally to spatial distance. These results indicate the need for local calibration of metrics when developing MMIs, especially if the protocols already available come from distant and environmentally dissimilar places.
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- Victoria Sousa
- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil; Laboratório de Biogeografia e Ecologia Aquática (Bioecol), Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil; Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ictiologia, Setor de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ictiologia, UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Ambientais (DCA-So), Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Centro de Estudos em Recursos Naturais (CERNA), Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- Centro de Biologia Aquática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiás, Brazil; Laboratório de Biodiversidade-PPSTMA, UniEVANGÉLICA, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biogeografia e Ecologia Aquática (Bioecol), Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil; Laboratório de Biogeografia e Ecologia Aquática (Bioecol), Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil
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Salvador GN, Leal CG, Brejão GL, Pessali TC, Alves CBM, Rosa GR, Ligeiro R, Montag LFDA. Mining activity in Brazil and negligence in action. Perspect Ecol Conserv 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2020.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Zeni JO, Sensato-Azevedo LM, Santos EFD, Brejão GL, Casatti L. Habitat use, trophic, and occurrence patterns of Inpaichthys kerri and Hyphessobrycon vilmae (Pisces: Characidae) in Amazonian streams. Neotrop ichthyol 2020. [DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-2020-0006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Abstract Fish ecomorphology and diet can help us to understand species response to impacts and coexistence patterns. Thus, we developed a comparative analysis of ecomorphology and diet of Inpaichthys kerri and Hyphessobrycon vilmae and tested for environmental variables that explain their abundance in headwater streams. We sampled streams from the Aripuanã River basin, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. We sampled environmental variables following a standardized protocol and used 30 and 80 individuals from each species to obtain ecomorphological attributes and feeding index, respectively. To identify environmental variables that influence species abundance, we developed generalized additive mixed models. Inpaichthys kerri presented broader and deeper caudal peduncles, more dorsal eyes, and larger fins, besides the lower consumption of aquatic insects, algae, and detritus when compared to H. vilmae. Inpaichthys kerri was more abundant in fast waters with little amounts of marginal grasses, conditions associated with more forested streams, while H. vilmae was more in streams with more abundant marginal grasses from pasture. Deforestation in the Aripuanã basin threatens the persistence of I. kerri, since its optimal environmental conditions tend to be replaced by H. vilmae optimal conditions. Natural history helps us to understand species occurrence and represents a substantial contribution for more effective conservation measures.
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- Jaquelini O. Zeni
- Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Brazil; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), Brazil
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Casatti L, Brejão GL, Carvalho FR, Silva HPD, Pérez-Mayorga MA, Manzotti AR, Zeni JDO, Ramires BMS, Langeani F. Stream fish from recently deforested basins in the Meridional Amazon, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Biota Neotrop 2020. [DOI: 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2019-0744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Abstract: The replacement of tropical forests to production systems is one of the leading causes of riverine ecosystem alterations. However, current assemblages’ composition may also result from the time since these transformations have begun. Therefore, the knowledge of diversified historical scenarios can facilitate the accomplishment of actions that involve the aquatic environments recovery. In this study, an inventory of stream fish was carried out in basins whose deforestation was intensified in the last 20 years, to compose a baseline for ecological and taxonomic studies. The habitat, physical and chemical variables, and the fish assemblages from 60 streams in the northwest region of the state of Mato Grosso, in the Aripuanã and Juruena river basins, were sampled with standardized procedures. For a total of 130 species, a numerical predominance of small-sized Characidae and great rarity were registered, with 50 species represented by less than ten individuals and 19 singletons. Approximately 15% of the sampled taxa were identified only at the generic level, and for several taxa, more detailed taxonomic and molecular studies are required in order to achieve satisfactory identifications. None threatened species were so far reported. On the other hand, two specimens of non-native species were sampled. Although habitat quality is higher in forested streams, no differences in the species richness were registered when compared to the pasture with riparian forest streams or to more deforested streams. However, abundance was greater in these last two streams groups as a result of small-sized characins dominance.
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- Lilian Casatti
- Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Brazil
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Vieira TB, Pavanelli CS, Casatti L, Smith WS, Benedito E, Mazzoni R, Sánchez-Botero JI, Garcez DS, Lima SMQ, Pompeu PS, Agostinho CS, Montag LFDA, Zuanon J, de Aquino PDPU, Cetra M, Tejerina-Garro FL, Duboc LF, Corrêa RC, Pérez-Mayorga MA, Brejão GL, Mateussi NTB, de Castro MA, Leitão RP, de Mendonça FP, da Silva LRP, Frederico R, De Marco P. A multiple hypothesis approach to explain species richness patterns in neotropical stream-dweller fish communities. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0204114. [PMID: 30231064 PMCID: PMC6145546 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Several hypotheses are used to explain species richness patterns. Some of them (e.g. species-area, species-energy, environment-energy, water-energy, terrestrial primary productivity, environmental spatial heterogeneity, and climatic heterogeneity) are known to explain species richness patterns of terrestrial organisms, especially when they are combined. For aquatic organisms, however, it is unclear if these hypotheses can be useful to explain for these purposes. Therefore, we used a selection model approach to assess the predictive capacity of such hypotheses, and to determine which of them (combined or not) would be the most appropriate to explain the fish species distribution in small Brazilian streams. We perform the Akaike’s information criteria for models selections and the eigenvector analysis to control the special autocorrelation. The spatial structure was equal to 0.453, Moran’s I, and require 11 spatial filters. All models were significant and had adjustments ranging from 0.370 to 0.416 with strong spatial component (ranging from 0.226 to 0.369) and low adjustments for environmental data (ranging from 0.001 to 0.119) We obtained two groups of hypothesis are able to explain the richness pattern (1) water-energy, temporal productivity-heterogeneity (AIC = 4498.800) and (2) water-energy, temporal productivity-heterogeneity and area (AIC = 4500.400). We conclude that the fish richness patterns in small Brazilian streams are better explained by a combination of Water-Energy + Productivity + Temporal Heterogeneity hypotheses and not by just one.
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- Thiago Bernardi Vieira
- Laboratório de Ictiologia de Altamira, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Altamira, Para, Brasil
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- Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqüicultura (Nupelia), Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Ictiologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqüicultura (Nupelia), Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil
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- Instituto de Ciências do Mar - LABOMAR, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceara, Brasil
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- Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Rio Grande no Norte, Brasil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Programa de Mestrado em Sociedade, Tecnologia e Meio Ambiente, UNIEvangélica, Anápolis, Goiás Centro de Biologia Aquática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil
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- Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Centro Universitário Norte do Espírito Santo (CEUNES), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), São Mateus, Espirito Santo, Brasil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Ictiologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqüicultura (Nupelia), Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Para (UFPA), Belém, Para, Brasil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás Campus II (UFG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil
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Ribeiro JW, Siqueira T, Brejão GL, Zipkin EF. Effects of agriculture and topography on tropical amphibian species and communities. Ecol Appl 2018; 28:1554-1564. [PMID: 29729054 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Revised: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Habitat loss is the greatest threat to the persistence of forest-dependent amphibians, but it is not the only factor influencing species occurrences. The composition of the surrounding matrix, structure of stream networks, and topography are also important landscape characteristics influencing amphibian distributions. Tropical forests have high diversity and endemism of amphibians, but little is known about the specific responses of many of these species to landscape features. In this paper, we quantify the response of amphibian species and communities to landscape-scale characteristics in streams within the fragmented Brazilian Atlantic Forest. We surveyed amphibian communities during a rainy season in 50 independent stream segments using Standardized Acoustic and Visual Transect Sampling (active) and Automated Acoustic Recorders (passive) methods. We developed a hierarchical multi-species occupancy model to quantify the influence of landscape-scale characteristics (forest cover, agriculture, catchment area, stream density, and slope) on amphibian occurrence probabilities while accounting for imperfect detection of species using the two survey methods. At the community level, we estimated an overall mean positive relationship between amphibian occurrence probabilities and forest cover, and a negative relationship with agriculture. Catchment area and slope were negatively related with amphibian community structure (95% credible interval [CI] did not overlap zero). The species-level relationships with landscape covariates were highly variable but showed similar patterns to those at the community level. Species detection probabilities varied widely and were influenced by the sampling method. For most species, the active method resulted in higher detection probabilities than the passive approach. Our findings suggest that small streams and flat topography lead to higher amphibian occurrence probabilities for many species in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Our results combined with land use and topographic maps can be used to make predictions of amphibian occurrences and distributions beyond our study area. Such projections can be useful to determine where to conduct future research and prioritize conservation efforts in human-modified landscapes.
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- José Wagner Ribeiro
- Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University (Unesp), Avenida 24A 1515, Rio Claro, São Paulo, 13506-900, Brazil
- Department of Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, USA
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- Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University (Unesp), Avenida 24A 1515, Rio Claro, São Paulo, 13506-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences, São Paulo State University (Unesp), Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, 15054-000, Brazil
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, USA
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Bordignon CR, Casatti L, Pérez-Mayorga MA, Teresa FB, Brejão GL. Fish complementarity is associated to forests in Amazonian streams. Neotrop ichthyol 2015. [DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20140157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The functional structure of communities is commonly measured by the variability in functional traits, which may demonstrate complementarity or redundancy patterns. In this study, we tested the influence of environmental variables on the functional structure of fish assemblages in Amazonian streams within a deforestation gradient. We calculated six ecomorphological traits related to habitat use from each fish species, and used them to calculate the net relatedness index (NRI) and the nearest taxon index (NTI). The set of species that used the habitat differently (complementary or overdispersed assemblages) occurred in sites with a greater proportion of forests. The set of species that used the habitat in a similar way (redundant or clustered assemblages) occurred in sites with a greater proportion of grasses in the stream banks. Therefore, the deforestation of entire watersheds, which has occurred in many Amazonian regions, may be a central factor for the functional homogenization of fish fauna.
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Casatti L, Teresa FB, Zeni JDO, Ribeiro MD, Brejão GL, Ceneviva-Bastos M. More of the same: high functional redundancy in stream fish assemblages from tropical agroecosystems. Environ Manage 2015; 55:1300-1314. [PMID: 25822887 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-015-0461-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In this study, we investigated the influence of environmental variables (predictor variables) on the species richness, species diversity, functional diversity, and functional redundancy (response variables) of stream fish assemblages in an agroecosystem that harbor a gradient of degradation. We hypothesized that, despite presenting high richness or diversity in some occasions, fish communities will be more functionally redundant with stream degradation. Species richness, species diversity, and functional redundancy were predicted by the percentage of grass on the banks, which is a characteristic that indicates degraded conditions, whereas the percentage of coarse substrate in the stream bottom was an important predictor of all response variables and indicates more preserved conditions. Despite being more numerous and diverse, the groups of species living in streams with an abundance of grass on the banks perform similar functions in the ecosystem. We found that riparian and watershed land use had low predictive power in comparison to the instream habitat. If there is any interest in promoting ecosystem functions and fish diversity, conservation strategies should seek to restore forests in watersheds and riparian buffers, protect instream habitats from siltation, provide wood debris, and mitigate the proliferation of grass on stream banks. Such actions will work better if they are planned together with good farming practices because these basins will continue to be used for agriculture and livestock in the future.
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- Lilian Casatti
- Zoology and Botanic Department, São Paulo State University, UNESP, Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, São José Do Rio Preto, SP, 15054-000, Brazil,
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Casatti L, Pérez-Mayorga MA, Carvalho FR, Brejão GL, Da Costa ID. The stream fish fauna from the rio Machado basin, Rondônia State, Brazil. cl 2013. [DOI: 10.15560/9.6.1496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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The rio Machado (also known as Ji-Paraná) is a tributary of the rio Madeira in the Amazon basin. Currently, the rio Madeira contains the greatest fish species richness of the world, with approximately 1,000 species. The present study presents the fish inventory from streams of the rio Machado basin. In total, 75 stream reaches, 80 meter-length, randomly selected, were sampled in 2011 (August to October) and 2012 (June to July). Overall, 22,875 fish in eight orders, 32 families, 89 genera, and 140 species were collected. Richness estimators indicate that almost 90% of the expected richness was registered. The great majority of specimens (52.2%) was represented by small sized piabas such as Serrapinnus aff. notomelas, Moenkhausia collettii, Serrapinnus microdon, and Hemigrammus melanochrous. Of the total richness, 25 species were restricted to 9°00’ S and 10°00’ S; among them, 14 were exclusive to the lower portion of the basin, which exhibits the larger proportion of native vegetation covering.
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