Morphometric variability of Carabidae as an indicator of ecological restoration of revitalized habitats in the European important protected landscape area of the Danube floodplains [PDF]
PeerJRevitalization measures currently represent an important tool in ecological practice for the recovery of disturbed habitats, and their effectiveness is increasingly assessed using bioindicator groups, including ground beetles (Carabidae).
Vladimír Langraf +2 more
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BioCalc: a software tool for the calculation of biovolume of phytoplankton samples
, 2019 The estimate of cell biovolume, based on measurements of linear dimensions of shapes adapted to standard geometric models, is important for the study of phytoplankton ecology. However, time-consuming calculations are required for the estimation of biovolume from linear measurements.
dos Santos-Silva, Edinaldo Nelson +2 more
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Comparison of Microphototrophic Communities Living in Different Soil Environments in the High Arctic
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The Arctic region undergoes rapid climate change resulting in soil warming with consequent changes in microbial community structure. Therefore, it is important to gain more knowledge on the pioneer photosynthetic microorganisms and their relations to ...
Ekaterina Pushkareva +5 more
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The use of genus-level determinations and biovolume classes as surrogates to indicate environmental drivers of stream diatom communities in the Brazilian Pampa [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasThe demand for low-cost and time-efficient biomonitoring and ecological assessment strategies has increased due to threats to biodiversity. We evaluated the ability of surrogates (genera and biovolume classes) to access information provided by diatom ...
ANA PAULA TAVARES COSTA, FABIANA SCHNECK
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Decrease of diatom biovolume in biofilms exposed to arsenic
, 2015 La pollution par l’arsenic est un problème mondial. Les eaux (de surface et souterraines) en sont la voie principale de contamination. Nous avons mené une expérience visant à étudier les effets de ce métal sur les descripteurs fonctionnels et structurels des communautés de diatomées benthiques (Barral-Fraga et al., 2015).
Barral Fraga, L. +2 more
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Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2012 AIM: This study aimed to evaluate the algal periphytic community structure on substrates with differing surface roughness in early and longer-term colonization; METHODS: Periphyton was sampled after 30 days (June 24 to July 24, 2008) and 5 days (July 07 ...
Mariane Lima de Souza, Carla Ferragut
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Geophysical Research LettersMarginal seas contribute disproportionately to the ocean carbon cycle but remain poorly constrained due to strong spatial and seasonal variability. Here, we combine newly collected in situ particle imagery with machine learning to reconstruct monthly ...
Zengchao Xu +8 more
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A Simple yet Accurate Method for the Estimation of the Biovolume of Planktonic Microorganisms
PLOS ONE, 2016 Determining the biomass of microbial plankton is central to the study of fluxes of energy and materials in aquatic ecosystems. This is typically accomplished by applying proper volume-to-carbon conversion factors to group-specific abundances and biovolumes.
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Periphytic algal biomass in two distinct regions of a tropical coastal lake
Acta Limnologica BrasiliensiaAIM: This study assessed the phycoperiphyton biomass in two regions submitted to different human impacts on Juara Lake, a coastal ecosystem with multiple uses, to order to test the hypothesis that the sampling sites that receive domestic sewage shows ...
Stéfano Zorzal de Almeida +1 more
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Planktonic Cyanobacteria of the tropical karstic lake Lagartos from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2013 The tropical karstic lakes on the Mexican Caribbean Sea coast are numerous. However, there is an enormous gap of knowledge about their limnological conditions and micro-algae communities. In the present study, surface water samples were collected monthly
Francisco Valadez +3 more
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