Diversity and ecological aspects of aquatic insect communities from montane streams in southern Brazil

AIMS: In this study, the diversity of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Coleoptera communities was surveyed in the Toropi River basin, a watershed localized in a slope region, in southernmost Brazil. The influence of some local abiotic factors on the most common genera was also analyzed. ME...

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Main Authors: Bruna Marmitt Braun, Mateus Marques Pires, Carla Bender Kotzian, Marcia Regina Spies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Limnologia 2014-06-01
Series:Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-975X2014000200009&lng=en&tlng=en