Fatores determinantes sobre a estrutura da metacomunidade de ostrácodes associados às macrófitas aquáticas : uma análise desconstrutiva baseada nos traços biológicos.

Studies on metacommunities using the deconstruction approach based on biological traits have received a great attention in the last decade, as often describe characteristics of the species that reflect adaptations to a specific environment. However, this focus has not been addressed for the ostracod...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Campos, Ramiro de
Formato: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da Universidade Estadual de Maringá (RI-UEM)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:localhost:1/4856
Acesso em linha:http://repositorio.uem.br:8080/jspui/handle/1/4856
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Ostracoda (Crustacea)
Comunidades, Ecologia de
Metacomunidades
Estrutura
Microcrustáceos
Meiofauna
Análise desconstrutiva
Dispersão passiva
Vegetação aquática
Particionamento
Planície de inundação
Alto rio Paraná
Brasil.
Microcrustacean
Passive dispersal
Aquatic vegetation
Partitioning
Floodplain
Upper Paraná River
Brazil.
Ciências Biológicas
Ecologia
Descrição
Resumo:Studies on metacommunities using the deconstruction approach based on biological traits have received a great attention in the last decade, as often describe characteristics of the species that reflect adaptations to a specific environment. However, this focus has not been addressed for the ostracods, small crustaceans highly diverse and abundant in continental aquatic environments. The objective was to investigate the influence of environmental, spatial and type of substrate factors on the metacommunity structure of periphytic ostracods in tropical floodplain lakes; and after its deconstruction according to the biological traits (size and locomotion). The analysis of variance partition was used to estimate the relative importance of each ecological factor. Ostracods, regardless of body size, are good dispersers in regional scale. As expected, swimmers ostracod were better dispersers in local scale than non-swimmers, which were influenced mainly by the architecture and complexity of aquatic macrophytes. In conclusion, the species sorting mechanism predominated on the structuring of the metacommunity of ostracods, as well as for most categories of biological traits. The analysis based on deconstruction contributed to a better understanding of processes underlying the metacommunity structure, when the metacommunity as a whole was analyzed.