Monitoring simplification in plankton communities using different ecological approaches

• Main Authors: Souza,Carla Albuquerque de, Machado,Karine Borges, Nabout,João Carlos, Muniz,Daphne Heloisa de Freitas, Oliveira-Filho,Eduardo Cyrino, Kraus,Cleber Nunes, Ribeiro,Rômulo José da Costa, Vieira,Ludgero Cardoso Galli
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Limnologia 2019
• Subjects: reservoir; concordance; substitute groups; numerical resolution; taxonomic resolution; Pivot; Copepods; Rotifer
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-975X2019000100314

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...