Reservoirs have been built in almost all of the hydrographic basins of Brazil. Their purposes
include water supply for cities, irrigation and mainly, generation of electricity. There are more …

Biotic homogenization goes beyond the increase in taxonomic similarity among
communities. It also involves the loss of biological differences in any organizational level …

Although 20% of Brazilian territory is covered by wetlands, wetland inventories are still
incomplete. In 1993, Brazil signed the Ramsar Convention but a coherent national policy for …

The book “Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes”
represents the most cohesive data compilation for the rio Paraná floodplain. However …

Applying the ecosystem services concept to conservation initiatives or in managing
ecosystem services requires understanding how environmental impacts affect the ecology of …

We investigated the effect of interannual variation of hydrosedimentological regime and
connectivity on the zooplankton biodiversity in the Upper Paraná River floodplain …

Knowledge of abiotic limnological factors is important to monitor changes caused by
humans, and to explain the structure and dynamics of populations and communities in a …

The exact size of the wetland area of South America is not known but may comprise as much
as 20% of the sub-continent, with river floodplains and intermittent interfluvial wetlands as …

The present study explored the interaction between the upriver migration of fish and the
blockage of their migration routes by dam construction. Specifically, we studied (i) the …

We assessed the trophic structure of the fish fauna in Sinhá Mariana pond, Mato Grosso
State, from March 2000 to February 2001. The aim was to determine the feeding patterns of …