Twoline Skiffia's Latency to Exit a Refuge and to Locate Food When Socialising With Invaders and Raising Temperatures [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAquatic ecosystems are reservoirs of biodiversity and are highly threatened. Among the main threats to biodiversity are invasive species and global warming, the later has allowed the establishment of invasive species from originally warmer climates ...
Abigail Santiago‐Arellano +3 more
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20 Years of Global Change on the Limnology and Plankton of a Tropical, High-Altitude Lake
Diversity, 2022 The present long-term (1993–2013) study was aimed at identifying the effects of global change on the environmental characteristics and the plankton community of the tropical, high-altitude Lake Alchichica, Puebla, Mexico.
Javier Alcocer +7 more
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Seasonal and Interannual Dynamics of Pelagic Rotifers in a Tropical, Saline, Deep Lake
Diversity, 2022 This is the first long-term study (monthly samples at two 4-year intervals: 1998 to 2001 and 2013 to 2016) on rotifers in a saline, deep lake. The pelagic rotifer assemblage of Lake Alchichica is simple and comprised by two species, both new and most ...
Rocío Fernández +4 more
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Microcrustacean (Cladocera and Copepoda) Assemblages of a Tropical Karst Lake District
Diversity, 2022 The taxonomic richness, composition, abundance, and biomass of pelagic microcrustaceans (Cladocera and Copepoda) were determined in 17 lakes of the “Lagunas de Montebello” National Park, a karst lake district in Chiapas State, southeast Mexico.
Rocío Fernández +2 more
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ROV's Video Recordings as a Tool to Estimate Variation in Megabenthic Epifauna Diversity and Community Composition in the Guaymas Basin [PDF]
, 2020 Patterns in benthic megafauna diversity in littoral and intertidal zones in the Gulf of California have been associated with both habitat heterogeneity and substrate type.
Barry, James P. +3 more
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Phytoplankton Biodiversity in Two Tropical, High Mountain Lakes in Central Mexico
Diversity, 2022 Lakes El Sol and La Luna, inside the crater of the Nevado de Toluca volcano, Central Mexico, are the only two perennial high mountain lakes [HML] in the country. HML are considered among the most comparable ecosystems worldwide. These lakes are “extreme”
Estela Cuna +3 more
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Shifts in water column microbial composition associated to lakes with different trophic conditions: “Lagunas de Montebello” National Park, Chiapas, México [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Eutrophication is a global problem causing the reduction of water quality and the loss of ecosystem goods and services. The lakes of the “Lagunas de Montebello” National Park (LMNP), Chiapas, Mexico, not only represent unique and beautiful natural scenic
Alfredo Yanez-Montalvo +6 more
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Dynamics in benthic community composition and influencing factors in an upwelling-exposed coral reef on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Seasonal upwelling at the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica offers the opportunity to investigate the effects of pronounced changes in key water parameters on fine-scale dynamics of local coral reef communities.
Ines Stuhldreier +6 more
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Acta Protozoologica, 2020 The pelagic / anoxic hypolimnion population of Spirostomum teres was investigated as a part of the long-term ciliates’ monitoring (2003–2016) in an oligo- to mesotrophic monomictic hyposaline crater ...
Miroslav Macek +8 more
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Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2021 Introducción: El conocimiento sobre la composición taxonómica de la fauna de peces de agua dulce de Costa Rica ha cambiado sustancialmente en las últimas dos décadas.
Arturo Angulo +2 more
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