Influência da disponibilidade de alimento sobre o tamanho corpóreo e abundância de rotíferos e cladóceros em áreas alagáveis subtropicais.

Aquatic communities are influenced by food availability, changing its structuring, reflecting the interactions between organisms and, therefore, the bioenergetics relationships in the food chain. We had to analyze the change of phytoplankton biomass and abundance of ciliated protozoa alters the body size distribution of rotifers and cladocerans and their abundances in the different size classes structuring these communities. The hypothesis that environments where there is greater availability of food will be more abundant and predominance of smaller organizations; the opposite is expected for environments with lower availability of resources, which will lower abundance and dominance of larger organisms. Significant positive relationships were observed between the classes of small size of rotifers and small and mid-size class cladocerans and the concentration of chlorophyll-a and abundance of ciliates. Lower classes size of both groups dominated environments with higher resource availability, while the classes of greater Cladocera size dominated environments with lower resource availability, suggesting competitive advantage of large cladocerans on other rotifers and cladocerans when is scarce.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Bomfim, Francieli de Fátima
Format:	Thesis/Dissertation biblioteca
Language:	Portuguese
Published:	Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Departamento de Biologia. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais. 2016
Subjects:	Floodplain, Upper Paraná River, Brazil, Planície de inundação, Competição, Brasil, Alto rio Paraná, Zooplankton, Abundance, Food source, Competition, Body size, Protozoários ciliados, Cladóceros, Tamanho corpóreo, Comunidades, Ecologia de, Zooplâncton de água doce, Rotíferos, Clorofila-a, Abundância, Recurso alimentar, Ciências Ambientais,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/9957
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