Environmental heterogeneity explains species turnover but not nestedness in fish assemblages of a Neotropical basin

Abstract Aim: Heterogenous environments can contribute to maintain biodiversity. Traditionally beta diversity studies have focused on determining the effect of environmental variables on the total dissimilarity of species composition. However, decomposing beta diversity in species replacement and ne...

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Main Authors: Oscar Eduardo Peláez, Filipe Manoel Azevedo, Carla Simone Pavanelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Limnologia 2017-12-01
Series:Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-975X2017000100418&lng=en&tlng=en