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Fish diversity in tidepools: assembling effects of environmental heterogeneity
Bezerra, Luis Artur Valões; Padial, André Andrian; Mariano, Filipe Brasil; Garcez, Danielle Sequeira; Sánchez-Botero, Jorge IvánTidepools are considered ecosystems of high interchangeable fish biota. However, natural and anthropogenic actions that alter negatively marine ecosystems functioning (e.g., algal exploitation) are causing homogenization of fish biodiversity. Here, we describe the functional and taxonomic assembling of fishes in beach rocks of northeastern Brazil. Traits of fish species were retrieved from Fishbase and beta div...
Protected areas: A focus on Brazilian freshwater biodiversity
Azevedo-Santos, Valter Monteiro de; Frederico, Renata Guimarães; Fagundes, Camila Kurzmann; dos Santos Pompeu, Paulo; Pelicice, Fernando MayerBrazil has a variety of aquatic ecosystems and rich freshwater biodiversity, but these components have been constantly damaged by the expansion of unsustainable activities. An array of different conservation strategies is needed, especially the creation of protected areas (PAs, hereafter). However, Brazil's PAs are biased towards terrestrial ecosystems and we argue that current PAs have limited efficacy in the ...
The study of fractals among ecologists - doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v34i1.7701
Mormul, Roger Paulo; Padial, André AndrianFractals seemed to have permeated most of scientific fields, including ecology. In fact, biodiversity and ecological processes are affected by spatial complexity, and fractals can help understand patterns at multiple scales. In this paper we evaluated the main quantitative trends and the profile of ecological publications using fractals. Publication about fractals in Ecology experienced a high increase in the l...