Monitoring simplification in plankton communities using different ecological approaches

• Published in: Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia
• Main Authors: Carla Albuquerque de Souza, Karine Borges Machado, João Carlos Nabout, Daphne Heloisa de Freitas Muniz, Eduardo Cyrino Oliveira-Filho, Cleber Nunes Kraus, Rômulo José da Costa Ribeiro, Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Limnologia
• Subjects: reservatório; concordância; grupos substitutos; resolução numérica; resolução taxonômica; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Pivot; Copepods; Rotifer
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-975x3617; https://doaj.org/article/4bf32bd9dacf4f33913b3a60d303eb07

Abstract Aim This study aimed to answer: (i) can phytoplankton communities be used as surrogate of zooplankton communities?; (ii) can we use ecological approaches like functional groups (FG) or morphofunctional classification (MBFG) as surrogate for phytoplankton species?; (iii) can we use substitut...