Propagule pressure and environmental filters related to non-native species success in river-floodplain ecosystems

SM Thomaz - Hydrobiologia, 2022 - Springer
The flood pulse is the main driving force influencing river floodplain ecosystems. The
dominant role of the flood pulse on the success of non-native species (NNSs) is what …

Red foxes at their northern edge: competition with the Arctic fox and winter movements

S Lai, C Warret Rodrigues, D Gallant… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Rapid range expansion of boreal forest predators onto the tundra may disrupt local
ecological processes, notably through competition with ecologically similar species. Red …

Niche partitioning and seasonality may mediate coexistence of piranha species in Amazonian floodplain lakes

FS de Andrade, B Possamai, CEC Freitas… - Hydrobiologia, 2024 - Springer
Unraveling factors that enable the coexistence of species occupying similar niches is a
challenge in Ecology. In the Amazon basin, several piranha species (Serrasalmidae) co …

Patterns of functional diversity of native and non‐native fish species in a neotropical floodplain

MA Angulo‐Valencia, RM Dias, DC Alves… - Freshwater …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities affecting freshwater ecosystems, such as regulation of rivers by dams and
introduction of non‐native species, are recognised as major threats to freshwater …

Functional dissimilarity correlates to the co-occurrence patterns of native and non-native species

AC Rodrigues, J Cucherousset, ER Cunha… - Biological …, 2024 - Springer
Many theories have been created to explain the mechanisms driving species coexistence.
They are mainly based on biotic interactions and abiotic factors, which are being constantly …

[HTML][HTML] Alien fish in Neotropical reservoirs: assessing multiple hypotheses in invasion biology

CM Muniz, E García-Berthou, MJM Ganassin… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Invasive alien species are one of the main components of global ecological change, the
second known cause of animal extinctions, and very costly in terms of ecosystem services …

Stable isotopes reveal niche segregation between native and non‐native Hoplias in a Neotropical floodplain

GHZ Alves, VM Cionek, GI Manetta… - … of Freshwater Fish, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated whether isotopic niche partitioning could mediate the coexistence between
native (Hoplias sp. B) and non‐native (Hoplias mbigua) trahira in a Neotropical floodplain …

Feeding habits influence species habitat associations at the landscape scale in a diverse clade of Neotropical fishes

KV Coronado‐Franco, PA Tedesco… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A primary goal of community ecology is to understand the mechanisms that drive
species' spatial distribution and habitat associations. Species' geographic distribution can …

Fish larvae-environment networks: co-occurrence patterns, nestedness and robustness of reproductive guilds

RR Rosa, S Bellay, MT Baumgartner, A Bialetzki - Hydrobiologia, 2022 - Springer
We assessed the importance of different types of riverine environments (river channels,
tributaries, and floodplain lagoons) for the early development of fish larvae from different …

The invasion of an alien characiform fish and the decline of a native congener in a Neotropical river-floodplain system

MJM Ganassin, E García-Berthou, AC Rodrigues… - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
Using a long time series, we analyzed trends in abundance of two characiform fishes in the
upper Paraná River and its floodplain: the native Schizodon altoparanae and its alien …