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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Limnologia
2017-12-01
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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 |