The structure of freshwater assemblages may be driven directly by urbanization or indirectly by a reduction in environmental heterogeneity (EH). Disentangling the effects of urbanization and EH requires uncorrelated proxies of each of these factors. We assessed the effects of the degree of urbanization a...
Una de las causas que aportan a la disminución de la biodiversidad es la introducción de especies exóticas que muchas veces terminan siendo invasoras, y por lo tanto terminan compitiendo con especies locales. Esta competencia no siempre es equitativa ya que las especies invasoras comúnmente cuentan c...
Abstract:Predators can influence a variety of prey traits, including behavior. Traits such as boldness, activity rate, and tendency to explore can all be shaped by predation risk. Our study examines the effects of predation on these behaviors by considering a natural system in which two sister species of...
Poeciliids comprise around 300 species inhabiting the fresh and brackish waters of the Americas and Africa. Poecilia reticulata is native to Northeastern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. In this paper, introduced specimens of P. reticulata collected in the lower Paraguay River in Argentina, were ch...
Some aspects of the population ecology of Phallotorynus pankalos in a first-order stream of the Iguatemi River Basin are described based on samples taken from March/2007 to February/2008. A total of 2680 individuals, including 948 males and 1732 females was collected. Adult females are larger than males;...
Morphometric analysis of the lining epithelium of the gill filament off Guaru (Poecilia vivipara) exposed to fraction of leaf and bark extracts of Pequi (Caryocar brasiliensis)
O Cerrado brasileiro tem sido um dos domínios ecológicos mais explorado cientificamente nos dias atuais e na última década. Estudos recentes têm proposto o uso de extrato da folha e casca do caule de C. brasiliensis (pequi) como agente moluscicida, no intuito de combater o hospedeiro intermediário ...
