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Item Evidências experimentais para a associação entre o nível de relação filogenética e a intensidade de competição entre espécies de gramíneas exóticas e nativa(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2009-06-05) AZEVEDO, Rodrigo Carvalho de; PORTES, Tómas de Aquino; Tómas de Aquino Portes; BINI, Luis Mauricio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0931860042124079Biological invasions has been a major threat to whole biomes around the world, affecting communities and ecossistems with consequences to the trophic web. At the same time it is a huge biogeographical experiment that allows the formulation of hypotheses about the rules for communitie assembly. This study tested the hypothesis that the level of phylogenetic relationship is positively correlated with the magnitude of competitive interactions, being stronger for closer species. We used two exotic African species (Panicum maximum and Andropogon gayanus) and a native of South America (Paspalum atratum-focal species) in a partial additive design for the mix of native-exotic, with an increase in density of the exotic. The results showed greater competitive effect on the focal species when in the presence of P. maximum (closer to the focal), suggesting that predictions can be made on potential invasive species based on the Darwin s Naturalization Hypothesys.Item Suficiência taxonômica, resolução numérica e grupos substitutos: uma análise para a comunidade fitoplanctônica de ambiente lótico(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2007-12-11) CARNEIRO, Fernanda Melo; BINI, Luis Mauricio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0931860042124079Classification systems are necessary to organize the huge complexity of biological systems. Frequently, these systems are useful to studies focusing on environmental monitoring, conservation plans and biodiversity assessments. Studies on phytoplankton ecology are, in general, conducted with the identification of organisms up to the species level. This is a costly, laborious and complex task that demands experienced biologists. However, for some purposes, higher taxonomic levels may be enough, mainly when main trends are identified by either data at low or higher resolution (taxonomic and numeric). In this study, it was evaluated if the temporal trajectories described by a lotic phytoplankton community, which were first summarized by an ordination technique, were dependent or not on the taxonomic/numerical resolution used to represent the data. The phytoplankton classification system in functional groups was also contrasted against simple taxonomic classifications in order to verify if they really offer distinct patterns of ordination. Procrustean analyses indicated that patterns of ordination generated by incidence data of genus were significantly concordant with the patterns generated by density of species. Temporal trajectories of scores derived from functional groups significantly matched those derived from analyses based on the quantitative data (density or biovolume) of genus or family. Thus, at least for the system investigated here, the complexities associated with this classification criterion may be unwarranted. In general, the results indicated that some simplifications were justifiable, mainly when one takes into account the need of uninterrupted biomonitoring programs over large spatial scales in a continental-sized country, with increasing environmental problems, and with a paucity of scientistsItem Influência do estresse hídrico, riqueza e abundância de espécies nativas sobre o potencial invasor de uma Poaceae exótica(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011-05-28) MICHELAN, Thaísa Sala; BINI, Luis Mauricio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0931860042124079Exotic species represent strong threats to biodiversity. This concern is especially valid in freshwater ecosystems due to their high biodiversity and the highest rates of extinction, compared with terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The increasing habitat complexity provided by the presence of macrophytes may partially explain the high diversity of aquatic ecosystems. However, depending on the density and other particular characteristics of these plant, the diversity may be negatively affected. In this context, Urochloa subquadripara, a species native to Africa, is an aquatic macrophyte weed occurring in various natural and artificial aquatic ecosystems in America. In a small scale, the occurrence of this exotic species increases with reducing natives species richness; however, in a large scale U. subquadripara invades sites with more richness of native species. This controversy is typical of observational studies in invasion biology and it demand experiments to test effects of abiotic and biotic resistance on the invasive potential of this exotic. Accordingly, two experiments were conducted in order to test the following hypotheses: (i) the regeneration and colonization of U. subquadripara decreases with increasing time of exposure to dry, (ii) fragments of the apical part of this species, when compared with those of the basal part, have higher viability and colonization potential (first experiment) and (iii) the invasiveness of aquatic environments by U. subquadripara is negatively influenced by the richness and abundance of native species (second experiment). Our results supported all of our hypotheses: U. subquadripara showed high resistance to desiccation, and the fragments of the apical part were those which had higher viability and colonization potential. In addition, both richness and abundance of native species affected negatively the invasive potential of this exotic macrophyte. The second experiment demonstrated that the effect of richness and abundance limited the development of U. subquadripara, although such effect was not sufficient to prevent the invasion of macrophyte communities by this species. Based on these results, it appears that the population growth of U. subquadripara is greater in disturbed sites, mainly those affected by drought, which in general, have lower abundance and diversity of native species.Item Grupos substitutos, correspondência de assembléias aquáticas em relação a esquemas de classificação regional, e determinantes de diversidade beta em uma planície de inundação neotropical(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2010-01-25) PADIAL, André Andrian; BINI, Luis Mauricio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0931860042124079A general goal in community ecology is to understand how communities are organized in space and time. An aspect of great interest is to evaluate how concordant are the patterns of beta diversity depicted by different biological groups. If two taxonomic groups present a similar spatial/temporal structure, only one of these groups can be used as a surrogate group in conservation efforts or bioassessments. Also, a strong correspondence between biological groups and physical classifications of the habitat could help us to understand the reasons for spatial organization of communities. Moreover, if communities respond to a priori classifications based on geological and environmental features of the habitats, the selection of priority areas for conservation distributed on the classes of a classification scheme could maximize the conservation of overall biodiversity. Finally, to understand the main processes driving the organization of communities, the relative role of different set of predictor variables can be simultaneously evaluated. If species compositions are mainly predicted by environmental variables then one can conclude that species sorting mechanisms are the main drivers of community structure. On the other hand, if variables that represent spatial structure of the environments are the main predictors of variation in species composition, then neutral processes may be invoked to explain the structure of the biological group under analysis. Therefore, the main goals of this thesis are: (i) to evaluate the concordance among distinct biological groups; (ii) to evaluate the correspondence between a priori physical classifications of the habitat and the composition of assemblages and; (iii) to evaluate the relative role of environmental and spatial predictors on the structure of local assemblages in a Neotropical floodplain. For that, we used data sets on six biological groups (fish, benthic macroinvertebrates, aquatic macrophytes, zooplankton, phytoplankton, and periphyton) which were gathered during 2000 and 2001 in up to 36 aquatic environments of the Upper Paraná River floodplain. Patterns of assemblage concordance were frequently observed. The main mechanisms responsible for cross-taxon concordance were a similar response to environmental/spatial gradients and biological interactions between species. The mechanisms were identified after controlling for the effect of environmental/spatial variables on the cross-taxon concordance and after evaluating the level of concordance between species from each group that most likely are linked by biological interactions. However, the levels of assemblage concordance were weak and varied conspicuously with time. These results highlight that the use of surrogate groups is a flawed strategy to support conservation efforts in the Upper Paraná River floodplain. Nevertheless, the classification scheme of the floodplain, considering mainly limnological and geological aspects, was efficient to represent the structure of different aquatic assemblages. Thus, conservation efforts and bioassessments of the aquatic flora and fauna can use this classification scheme. However, the temporal variability also affected the consistency of the correspondence and this issue should be further investigated. On the other hand, temporal variables were not effective in predicting the structure of different biological assemblages. Environmental and spatial variables were generally more important, but also with low predictive power. Spatial variables were particularly important for large organisms with low dispersal ability, such as sedentary fish and aquatic plants. On the other hand, compared to spatial predictors, environmental variables were more important to explain the structure of small-bodied organisms with high dispersal ability (such as micro-algae) and organisms with migratory behavior. Nevertheless, all variables had a low predictive power, probably due to the low extent of the environmental and spatial gradients and to the lack of variables that represent relevant processes for determining the structure of aquatic assemblages in floodplains.