In the last three decades, several studies have suggested that the structure of stream macroalgal communities is shaped by local environmental variables, but some recent papers have shown that the relevance of the environment ...

Large expanses of riparian vegetation have been destroyed in Brazil, and few studies have focused on biological indicators of soil quality in Brazilian riparian ecosystems. The aim of this study was to assess relationships ...

Because anuran species are highly dependent on environmental variables, we hypothesized that anuran species richness and the number of reproductive modes from different Brazilian localities vary according to climatic and ...

Because anuran species are highly dependent on environmental variables, we hypothesized that anuran species richness and the number of reproductive modes from different Brazilian localities vary according to climatic and ...

The conversion of forests into agriculture has been identified as a key process for stream homogenization. However, the effects of this conversion can be scale-dependent. In this context, our aim was to identify the influence ...

Although several studies explain the trophic cascade in water systems, we lack knowledge about top-down–bottom-up effects on phytoplankton from eutrophic lakes. In this study, we tested the importance of trophic cascades ...

Aim: We evaluated different facets of beta diversity (taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional), and its components (spatial turnover and nestedness), of a stream macroalgal metacommunity, as well as the effect of local ...