Downstream impacts of dams: shifts in benthic invertivorous fish assemblages

RV Granzotti, LE Miranda, AA Agostinho, LC Gomes - Aquatic Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Impoundments alter connectivity, sediment transport and water discharge in rivers and
floodplains, affecting recruitment, habitat and resource availability for fish including benthic …

We need better understanding about functional diversity and vulnerability of tropical freshwater fishes

JRS Vitule, AA Agostinho, VM Azevedo-Santos… - Biodiversity and …, 2017 - Springer
Here we extend a discussion initiated by Toussaint et al.(Sci Rep 6: 22125, 2016)
concerning the relationship between global patterns of freshwater fish functional diversity …

Ocorrência e ecologia trófica de quatro espécies de Astyanax (Characidae) em diferentes rios da bacia do rio Tibagi, Paraná, Brasil

ST Bennemann, AM Gealh, ML Orsi… - Iheringia. Série …, 2005 - SciELO Brasil
Na bacia do rio Tibagi, trechos dos rios Fortaleza, Iapó e Tibagi foram amostrados
mensalmente, de maio de 2001 a abril de 2002, com tarrafas e redes de espera de …

The impact of water pollution on fish species in southeast region of Goiás, Brazil

S Vaz S. Silva, AHC Dias, ES Dutra… - Journal of Toxicology …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The rivers from the region of Catalão, Southeast Goiás State, Brazil, are exposed to intense
anthropogenic influences including agricultural activities, industry, and urban waste. The …

Diets and trophic structure of fish assemblages in a large and unexplored subtropical river: The Uruguay River

A López-Rodríguez, I Silva, S de Ávila-Simas… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Neotropics represent a hotspot for freshwater biodiversity with vast number of fish
species of scarce ecological knowledge. This holds true for the Uruguay River, where fish …

Ontogenetic Diet Shifts of a Neotropical Catfish, Pimelodus maculatus (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae): An Ecomorphological Approach

SE Lima-Junior, R Goitein - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2003 - Springer
This study analyses the ontogenetic diet shifts of a Neotropical catfish, Pimelodus maculatus
(Siluriformes, Pimelodidae), from an ecomorphological standpoint. We collected 241 …

[HTML][HTML] Oportunismo alimentar de Knodus moenkhausii (Teleostei, Characidae): uma espécie abundante em riachos do noroeste do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

M Ceneviva-Bastos, L Casatti - Iheringia. Série Zoologia, 2007 - SciELO Brasil
O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a biologia alimentar de Knodus moenkhausii
(Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903) em riachos do Alto rio Paraná no Estado de São Paulo. Em …

High intraspecific variability in morphology and diet in tropical stream fish communities

LR Manna, S Villéger, CF Rezende… - Ecology of Freshwater …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Functional diversity of fish communities has been measured according to (a) interspecific
variability, assuming that intraspecific variability is negligible, or (b) morphological …

Mercury in lakes and lake fishes on a conservation-industry gradient in Brazil

N Mirlean, ST Larned, V Nikora, VT Kütter - Chemosphere, 2005 - Elsevier
Mercury contamination in freshwater food webs can be severe and persistent, and
freshwater fish are a major source of mercury contamination in humans. Northern …

Plasticity in the diet of Astyanax taeniatus in a coastal stream from south-east Brazil

LR Manna, CF Rezende, R Mazzoni - Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
In this work we aimed to characterise the diet of Astyanax taeniatus (Jenyns
1842)(Characiformes, Characidae) along the Mato Grosso stream and we hypothesised that …