Alien species often flourish and become invasive in urban ecosystems. How and why
invaders succeed in urban systems is an important, yet poorly understood, question. We …

Habitat homogenization is one of the most important drivers of change in riverine fauna.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine whether habitat homogenization influences …

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 …

Fish are excellent bioindicators and can reveal the presence of plastic in the environment.
Diagnosing the composition and abundance of polymers in the fish diet makes it possible to …

Aim Our aim in this study was to evaluate the effects of land use in drainage basins of the
streams on the taxonomic and functional composition of aquatic invertebrate communities …

The mudskipper Boleophthalmus boddarti (Pallas, 1770) is an important commercial fish,
but information on its dietary composition has been limited. This study was carried out from …

It has been postulated that eutrophication causes replacement of n3 highly unsaturated fatty
acids (n3 HUFA) rich taxa, such as Bacillariophyta, Cryptophyta and Dinophyta, with taxa …

The Amazon rainforest has experienced rapid land-use changes, including extensive
deforestation of riparian areas, putting at risk among the most diverse freshwater fish …

We aim to test the hypothesis that an assemblage of characid fishes coexist by partitioning
food resources. We calculated dietary niche overlap of four syntopic species of the …

A grande extensão e diversidade nas condições ecológicas de ecossistemas de riacho no
Brasil são amplamente reconhecidas. Nas últimas duas décadas, estudos sobre a …