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Temporal community change in stream ecosystems varies by assemblage across US climates

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecosystem properties are temporally dynamic. Temporal variability has been shown to decrease with increasing levels of biological organization (i.e. from population to community and ecosystem levels).
Megan C. Malish, Stephen C. Cook, Mariana Perez Rocha, Albert Ruhí, Michael T. Bogan, Thomas M. Neeson, Daniel C. Allen   +6 more
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Evaluation of the potential of Pontederia parviflora Alexander in the absorption of copper (Cu) and its effects on tissues - doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v32i3.3940

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2010
The study sought to evaluate the potential of the aquatic macrophyte Pontederia parviflora Alexander in the absorption of copper (Cu) and possible variations in its tissues after 21 days of exposure to this metal.
Graziela Custodio Balassa, Débora Cristina de Souza, Sônia Barbosa de Lima   +2 more
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Geometric Morphometrics Reveal Body Shape Variation in Freshwater Shrimps of the Genus Macrobrachium Lacking a Mandibular Palp (Formerly Pseudopalaemon Sollaud, 1911) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae)

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shape variation in the cephalothorax of Macrobrachium species without mandibular palp using geometric morphometrics was used as a tool to support species differentiation and propose new diagnostic characters for taxonomic identification.
Thaís Arrais Mota, Ana Carla Soares da Silva, Lucas Jhones de Santana Neves, Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar, Fabrício Lopes Carvalho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chironomid‐based summer temperature reconstruction of the Eemian–Weichselian transition at Lichtenberg, northern Germany

Boreas, EarlyView.
Understanding the temperature variability of past interglacial cycles is essential to predict future climates. We present a new summer temperature reconstruction, based on the subfossil chironomid record from a small palaeolake adjacent to the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg, northern Germany. The record spans from the Saalian late glacial over
Sonja Rigterink, Bartosz Kotrys, Michael Hein, Xuan Li, Neda Rahimzadeh, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Marcel Weiss, Brigitte Urban, David Colin Tanner, Tobias Lauer, Antje Schwalb   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relative impacts of morphological alteration to shorelines and eutrophication on littoral macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean lakes [PDF]

, 2015
Development of effective methods for assessing the ecological status of lakes based on littoral benthic fauna has been hampered by the lack of quantitative data on the relative impacts of key pressures on the benthic community.
BAZZANTI, Marcello, Di Vito, Valentina, Frosali, Davide, Livretti, Francesco, MASTRANTUONO, Luciana, Pilotto, Francesca, Pusch, Martin T., Sena, Fabrizio, SOLIMINI, ANGELO GIUSEPPE   +8 more
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Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization

Ecography, EarlyView.
In ecosystems, species interact in various ways with other species, and with their local environment. In addition, ecosystems are coupled in space by diverse types of flows. From these links connecting different ecological entities can emerge circular pathways of indirect effects: feedback loops.
Benoît Pichon, Sonia Kéfi, Nicolas Loeuille, Ismaël Lajaaiti, Isabelle Gounand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat architecture influencing microcrustaceans composition: a case study on freshwater Cladocera (Crustacea Branchiopoda)

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Environmental complexity is considered a key factor for diversity enhancement in aquatic ecosystems. Macrophyte stands are a major contributor for this complexity due to their differential architectures.
J. R. Debastiani-Júnior, L. M. A. Elmoor-Loureiro, M. G. Nogueira   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flooding affects fluctuating asymmetry but not growth of a riparian orbweaving spider

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
In a mesocosm experiment we assessed the impact of flood on aquatic insect emergence and on spider development using geometric morphometric analysis of fluctuating asymmetry. We observed 45% higher emergence in flooded mesocosm throughout the season. Spiders did not grow bigger but exhibited ~15% lower fluctuating asymmetry than in controls.
Stephane Mutel, Martin H. Entling, Ken M. Mauser, Federica Spani, Celia Thomas, Collins Ogbeide, Mirco Bundschuh, Franziska Fiolka, Franziska Middendorf, Ralf Schulz, Alessandro Manfrin   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physical and biological controls on fine sediment transport and storage in rivers [PDF]

, 2018
Excess fine sediment, comprising particles
Casas-Mulet, R., England, Judy, Gittins, Joshua, Gurnell, Angela, Jones, Iwan, Mason, Richard, Mathers, Kate, Mckenzie, Morwenna, Murray-Bligh, John, Vanzo, D., Wilkes, Martin   +10 more
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Disentangling the Drivers of a Piscivorous Intra‐Annual Cohort and the Contributions of Three Cohorts to Early‐Year Class Strength in Pikeperch (Sander lucioperca)

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) as a model species, we investigated the factors influencing fluctuations in the abundance of piscivorous intra‐annual cohorts and assessed the role of three distinct cohorts: extremely small (ES), ordinary (or mid‐sized) fingerlings, and piscivorous in shaping year‐class strength.
Million Tesfaye, Tomáš Jůza, Marek Šmejkal, Katerina Soukalová, Daniel Bartoň, Petr Blabolil, Martin Čech, Josef Hejzlar, Marie Prchalová, Milan Muška, Michal Tušer, Luboš Kočvara, Zuzana Sajdlová, Vladislav Draštík, Carlos Martinez, Karlos Ribeiro de Moraes, Milan Říha, Mojmír Vašek, Radka Symonová, Marek Brabec, Jan Kubečka, Allan T. Souza   +21 more
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