Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Long-term aquatic biomonitoring in a Southern Brazil urban center: the Guaíba Lake fish community structure through the years

  • Published:
Environmental Biology of Fishes Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The ichthyofauna of a large lake located in one of the biggest urban centers in Southern South America was studied for 15 years. Variations in ichthyofauna composition by sampling site and period, as well as the influence of abiotic parameter variations on the fish community, were tested through multivariate statistical analysis. Likewise, alterations in abundance of morphological anomalies by species, sampling site, and sampling period were verified. Fish community structure alterations demonstrated dissimilar levels of environmental quality in different areas, with sampling sites 1 and 4 considered the poorest and sampling sites 2 and 5 the highest environmental quality areas of the lake. Concerning temporal alterations of the fish fauna, species richness varied significantly, and non-native species emerged in the lake along the studied years. Statistical analysis pointed to a significant abundance of morphological anomalies occurring during four periods, as well as in all sampling sites; however, the highest abundance of anomalous specimens and anomaly types had been recorded for sampling site 1, reinforcing its low environmental quality. The use of different parameters of fish community structure and the observation of morphological alterations’ occurrence in integrative analyses can be an accurate tool to diagnose spatial and temporal discrepancies in aquatic environment quality.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

Similar content being viewed by others

Data availability

Testimonial material was deposited in the ichthyology collection of the Department of Zoology of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (voucher numbers in Table S1).

Code availability

Not applicable.

References

  • Abes SS, Agostinho AA (2001) Spatial patterns in fish distributions and structure of the ichthyocenosis in the Água Nanci stream, upper Paraná River basin, Brazil. Hydrobiologia 445:217–227. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017538720502

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Adams SM (1990) Status and use of biological indicators for evaluating the effects of stress on fish. Am Fish Soc Symp 8:1–8

    Google Scholar 

  • Agostinho AA, Thomaz SM, Gomes LC (2005) Conservation of the biodiversity of Brazil’s inland waters. Conserv Biol 19:646–652

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Albert JS, Tagliacollo VA, Dagosta F (2020) Diversification of neotropical freshwater fishes. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 51:27–53

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Angermeier PL, Davideanu G (2004) Using fish communities to assess streams in România: initial development of an index of biotic integrity. Hydrobiologia 511:65–78

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Anderson MJ (2001) A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance. Austral Ecol 26:32–46

    Google Scholar 

  • Anderson MJ, Crist TO, Chase JM, Vellend M, Inouye BD, Freestone AL, Harrison SP (2011) Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecol Letter 14:19–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01552.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Andrade RR, Colares ERC, Krigger SS, Maizonave CRM, Morandi IC (2012) Lago Guaíba (RS): índice de qualidade da água – IQA, 2000 a 2009. ECOS Técnica 4:5–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Araújo FG (1998) Adaptação do índice de integridade biótica usando a comunidade de peixes para o rio Paraíba do Sul. Rev Bras Biol 58:547–558

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Basso LA (2012) Bacias Hidrográficas do Rio Grande do Sul: implicações ambientais. In: Verdum RL, Basso A, Suertegaray DMA (ed) Rio Grande do Sul: paisagens e territórios em transformação, 2nd edn. Porto Alegre, Editora da UFRGS pp 87–108

  • Bendati MM, Schwarzbach MSR, Maizonave CRM, Almeida LB, Bringhenti ML (2000) Avaliação da qualidade da água do lago Guaíba (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) como suporte para a gestão da bacia hidrográfica. Congr Interam Ing Sanit Ambient 27:1–20

    Google Scholar 

  • Bergman H (1985) Assessment protocols for the identification and quantification of injury to fishery resources. Prog Rep, Washington, US Department of Interior

  • Bertaco VA, Lucena ZMS, Becker FG (1998) Variação espacial e temporal na abundância de Astyanax bimaculatus e Astyanax fasciatus (Characidae) no lago Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Comun Mus Cienc Tecnol PUCRS, Ser Zool 11:61–89

    Google Scholar 

  • Bertaco VA, Ferrer J, Carvalho FR, Malabarba LR (2016) Inventory of the freshwater fishes from a densely collected area in South America—a case study of the current knowledge of Neotropical fish diversity. Zootaxa 4138:401–440. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4138.3.1

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bitar OU, Ortega RD (1998) Gestão Ambiental. In: Oliveira AMS, Brito SNA (ed) Geologia de Engenharia, Associação Brasileira de Geologia de Engenharia. São Paulo, Brazil, pp 499–508

  • Blanchet FG, Legendre P, Borcard D (2008) Forward selection of explanatory variables. Ecology 89:2623–2632. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-0986.1

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Borcard D, Gillet F, Legendre P (2011) Numerical ecology with R. Springer-Verlag, New York

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Boscolo WR, Hayashi C, Soares CM, Furuya WM, Meurer F (2001) Desempenho e características de carcaça de machos revertidos de tilápias do Nilo (Oreochromis niloticus), linhagens tailandesa e comum, nas fases inicial e de crescimento. Rev Bras Zootec 30:1391–1396

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Britski HA, Silimon KZS, Lopes BS (2007) Peixes do Pantanal: manual de identificação. EMBRAPA, Brasília

  • Bruschi Jr.W, Malabarba LR, Silva JD (2000) Avaliação da Qualidade Ambiental dos riachos através das Taxocenoses de peixes Centro de Ecologia/UFRGS (ed) Carvão e meio ambiente. Porto Alegre, UFRGS: 803–809

  • Cairns JJr, McCormick PV, Niederlehner (1993) A proposed framework for developing indicators of ecosystem health. Hydrobiologia 263:1–44

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Camargo AF, Pereira ADM (2003) Qualidade da água em áreas urbanas. In: Braga R, Carvalho PF (eds) Recursos hídricos e planejamento urbano e regional. Rio Claro, Laboratório de Planejamento Municipal, Deplan: UNESP–IGCE

  • Chen C, Cao LJ, Zhao JL, Wan X, Wei SJ (2020) Geographic patterns of Lucanus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) species diversity and environmental determinants in China. Ecol Evol 00:1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6911

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clavero M, García-Berthou E (2005) Invasive species are a leading cause of animal extinctions. Trends Ecol Evol 20:110

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dajoz R (1983) Ecologia Geral. Vozes, Petrópolis

  • Dray S, Dufour AB (2007) The ade4 package: implementing the duality diagram for ecologists. J Statist Software 22:1–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dufech APS (2009) Uso de assembleias de peixes como indicadoras de degradação ambiental nos ecossistemas aquáticos do Delta do Rio Jacuí. Thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, RS

    Google Scholar 

  • Falcão MG, Pichler HA, Felix FC, Spach HL, Barril ME, Araujo KCBD, Godefroid RS (2017) A ictiofauna como indicador de qualidade ambiental em planícies de maré do complexo estuarino de Paranaguá, Brasil. Cad Esc Saúde: 1

  • Fausch KD, Lyons J, Karr JR, Angermeier PL (1990) Fish communities as indicators of environmental degradation. Am Fish Soc Symp 8:123–144

    Google Scholar 

  • FEPAM - Fundação Estadual De Proteção Ambiental Henrique Luiz Roessler. Qualidade Ambiental: Região Hidrográfica do Guaíba. www.feopam.rs.gov.br/qualidade/guaiba.asp. Accessed August 2017

  • Ferreira CDP, Casatti L (2006) Integridade biótica de um córrego na bacia do Alto Rio Paraná avaliada por meio da comunidade de peixes. Biota Neotropica 6:1–25 http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v6n3/pt/abstract?article+bn00306032006

  • Fialho AP, Oliveira LG, Tejerina-Garro FL, de Mérona B (2008) Fish-habitat relationship in a tropical river under anthropogenic influences. Hydrobiologia 598:315–324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-9165-3

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Flores-Lopes F, Malabarba LR, Pereira EHL, da Silva JFP (2001) Alterações histológicas em placas ósseas do peixe cascudo Rineloricaria strigilata (Hensel) (Teleostei, Loricariidae) e sua frequência no lago Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Rev Bras Zool 18:699–709. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-81752001000300006

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Flores-Lopes F, Malabarba LR, da Silva JFP, Pereira EHL (2002) Histologia de deformidades vertebrais em Cyanocharax alburnus (Hensel, 1870) (Ostariophysi: Characidae) do lago Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Comun Mus Cienc Tecnol PUCRS Ser Zool 15:137–155

    Google Scholar 

  • Flores-Lopes F, Cetra M, Malabarba LR (2010) Utilização de índices ecológicos em assembléias de peixes como instrumento de avaliação da degradação ambiental em programas de monitoramento. Biota Neotropica 10:183–193 http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v10n4/pt/abstract?article+bn03710042010

  • Fricke R, Eschmeyer WN, Van der Laan R (2022) Eschmeyer’s catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp. Accessed 15 April 2022

  • Garutti V (1988) Distribuição longitudinal da ictiofauna em um córrego da região noroeste do Estado de São Paulo, bacia do rio Paraná. Rev Bras Biol 48:747–759

    Google Scholar 

  • IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro De Geografia E Estatística. Cidades. https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/rs/porto-alegre/panorama. Accessed 03 August 2017

  • Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais - IBAMA (1998) Portaria 145/1998. http://www.ibama.gov.br/sophia/cnia/legislacao/IBAMA/PT0145-181001.PDF. Accessed 15 January 2018

  • Jenkins JA, Jr Bart HL, Bowker JD, Bowser PR, MacMillan JR, Nickum JG, Rachlin JW, Rose JD, Sorensen PW, Warkentine BE, Whitledge GW (2014) Guidelines for use of fishes in research-revised and expanded. Fish 39:415–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2014.924408

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kazi TG, Arain MB, Jamali MK, Jalbani N, Afridi HI, Sarfraz RA, Baig JA, Shah AQ (2009) Assessment of water quality of polluted lake using multivariate statistical techniques: a case study. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 72:301–309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.02.024

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Karr JR (1981) Assessment of biotic integrity using fish communities. Fish 6:21–27. https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8446(1981)006%3C0021:AOBIUF%3E2.0.CO;2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lobo EA, Callegaro VL, Bender P (2002) Utilização de algas diatomáceas epilíticas como indicadoras da qualidade da água em rios e arroios da Região Hidrográfica do Guaíba, RS, Brasil. Santa Cruz do Sul, Brasil, EDUNISC

  • Lobo EA, Bes D, Tudesque L, Ector L (2004) Water quality assessment of the Pardinho River, RS, Brazil, using epilithic diatom assemblages and faecal coliforms as biological indicators. Vie Et Milieu 54:115–126

    Google Scholar 

  • Legendre P, Anderson MJ (1999) Distance-based redundancy analysis: testing multispecies responses in multifactorial ecological experiments. Ecol Monogr 69:1–24. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0001:DBRATM]2.0.CO;2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Legendre P, Legendre L (1998) Numerical ecology, 2nd edn. Elsevier, Amsterdam

    Google Scholar 

  • Malabarba LR, Goettems EMP (1987) Estudos sobre a ictiofauna das lagoas de Estabilização Terciárias do SITEL. Anais do 14o Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental, São Paulo: 74–120

  • Malabarba LR, Carvalho Neto P, Bertaco VDA Carvalho TP, Ferrer J, Artioli LGS (2013) Guia de identificação dos peixes da bacia do rio Tramandaí. Via Sapiens, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  • Malabarba LR, Pereira EHL, da Silva JFP, Bruschi W Jr, Flores-Lopes F (2004) Avaliação da qualidade da água através da frequência de anomalias morfológicas em peixes: estudo de caso no lago Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Com Mus Cienc Tecnol PUCRS Ser Zool 17:97–128

    Google Scholar 

  • Margalef R (1969) Perspective in ecological theory. Univ Chic Press. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1969.14.2.0313

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Matthews WJ, Hough DJ, Robison HW (1992) Similarities in fish distribution and water quality patterns in streams of Arkansas: congruence of multivariate analyses. Copeia: 296–305 https://doi.org/10.2307/1446191

  • Matthews WJ (1998) Patterns in freshwaters fish ecology. Chapman & Hall, New York

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Mehak A, Mu Y, Mohsin M, Noman M, Nazir K (2017) Population dynamics of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) at Chashma Barrage, Pakistan Indian. J Geo Mar Sci 46:206–210 http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/40597

  • Menni RC, Gómez SE, Armengol FL (1996) Subtle relationships: freshwater fishes and water chemistry in southern South America. Hydrobiologia 328:173–197. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00017629

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Milani PCC (2005) Diagnóstico da pesca artesanal na lagoa do Casamento, sistema nordeste da laguna dos Patos: uma proposta de manejo. Dissertation, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

  • Mise FT, Tencatt L, dos Santos BF (2017) Record of morphological deformities in Corydoras aff. longipinnis in two reservoirs under urban influence in Upper Iguaçu and Southern Coastal basins in Paraná State, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 17: 1 https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2016-0230

  • Nehlsen W, Williams JE, Lichatowich JA (1991) Pacific salmon at the crossroads: stocks at risk from California, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. Fish Mag 16:4–21. https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8446(1991)016%3C0004:PSATCS%3E2.0.CO;2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • O’Hara RB, Kotze DJ (2010) Do not log-transform count data. Methods Ecol Evol 1:118–122

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Oksanen J, Blanchet FG, Friendly M, Kindt R, Legendre P, McGlinn D, Minchin PR, O’Hara RB, Simpson GL, Solymos P, Stevens MHH, Szoecs E, Wagner H (2017) Vegan: community ecology package R package version 2.4–5 https://CRAN.R–project.org/package=vegan

  • Oliveira MLAA, Porto ML (1999) Ecologia de paisagem do Parque Estadual Delta do Jacuí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: mapa da cobertura do solo e da vegetação, a partir de imagem do Landsat TM5. Iheringia Ser Bot 52:145–162

    Google Scholar 

  • Oliveira DV, da Silva TC, Zanin JG, Nachtigall G, Medeiros AW, Frazzon APG, Van Der Sand ST (2012) Qualidade da água e identificação de bactérias gram-negativas isoladas do arroio Dilúvio, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Ver Evid 12:51–62

    Google Scholar 

  • JM Paredes del Puerto AH Paracampo ID García T Maiztegui JRG Souza de ME Maroñas DC Colautti 2021 Fish assemblages and water quality in pampean streams (Argentina) along an urbanization gradient Hydrobiologia 1–18 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04657-z

  • Paul MJ, Meyer JL (2001) Streams in urban landscape. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 32:333–365. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.32.081501.114040

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pavanelli CS, Caramaschi EP (1997) Composition of the ichthyofauna of two small tributaries of the Paraná river, Porto Rico, Paraná state, Brazil. Ichthyol Explor Freshw 8:23–31

    Google Scholar 

  • Pinto RF, Oliveira CLC, Colombo P, Malabarba LR (2001) Primeiro registro de Pachyurus bonariensis (Steidachner, 1879) (Perciformes, Sciaenidae) para o sistema da laguna dos Patos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Resumos, XIV Encontro Brasileiro de Ictiologia. São Leopoldo, Brazil

  • Pielou EC (1975) Ecological diversity. John Wiley & Sons, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Prefeitura Municipal de Guaíba (2010) Plano municipal de gerenciamento ambiental Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

  • Pró-Guaíba (2017) Revista do Plano da Bacia Hidrográfica do Lago Guaíba http://comitedolagoguaiba.com.br/wpcontent/uploads/2017/08/Revista_planoLago_rev14-comp.pdf. Accessed 15 January 2018

  • Reash RJ, Berra TM (1987) Comparison of fish communities in a clean-water stream and an adjacent polluted stream. Am Midl Nat:301–322 https://doi.org/10.2307/2425788

  • Reis RE, Malabarba LR (1987) Revision of the neotropical cichlid genus Gymnogeophagus Ribeiro, 1918, with descriptions of two new species (Pisces, Perciformes). Rev Bras Zool 4:259–305

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rückert FQ (2013) O problema das águas poluídas na cidade de Porto Alegre (1853–1928). Diálogos 17:1145–1172. https://doi.org/10.4025/dialogos.v17i3.763

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saccol-Pereira A, Milani PCC, Fialho CB (2006) First record of Acestrorhynchus pantaneiro Menezes, 1992 (Characiformes, Acestrorhynchidae) in the system of the laguna dos Patos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Biota Neotrop 6:1–4. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032006000300017

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Salomoni SE, Rocha O, Callegaro VL, Lobo EA (2006) Epilithic diatoms as indicators of water quality in the Gravataí river, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Hydrobiologia 559:233–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-005-9012-3

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sanders RE, Miltner RJ, Yoder CO, Rankin ET (1999) The use of external deformities, erosion, lesions, and tumors (DELT anomalies) in fish assemblages for characterizing aquatic resources: a case study os seven Ohio streams. In: Simon TP (ed) Assessing the sustainability ans biological integrity ofr water resoucers using fish communities. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL

  • dos Santos VM, de Andrade LC, Tiecher T, Camargo FAO (2020) The urban pressure over the sediment contamination in a Southern Brazil Metropolis: the case of Diluvio Stream. Water Air Soil Pollut 231:1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04504-2

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Schulter EP, Vieira Filho JER (2017) Evolução da piscicultura no Brasil: diagnóstico e desenvolvimento da cadeia produtiva de tilápia. Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada – ipea:33 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/177544

  • Schulz UH, Martins-Junior H (2001) Astyanax fasciatus as bioindicator of water pollution of Rio dos Sinos, RS, Brazil. Braz J Biol 61:615–622. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1519-69842001000400010

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sindermann CJ (1990) Principal diseases of marine fish and shellfish, 2nd edn. Academic Press, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Teodosio AS, Flores-Lopes F (2020) Assessment of biotic integrity in streams of biological reserve of Una, Bahia, Brazil. Int J Zool Investig 6:217–232. https://doi.org/10.33745/ijzi.2020.v06i02.001

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van De Kamp G (1977) Vertebral deformities in herring around the British isles and their usefulness for a pollution monitoring programme. Int Counc Explor Sea, Doc CM

  • Venables WN, Ripley BD (2002) Modern applied statistics with S. Springer

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Vitule JRS, da Costa APL, Frehse FA, Bezerra LAV, Occhi TVT, Daga VS, Padial AA et al (2017) (2016)’. J Fish Biol 90:1182–1190. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13016

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • von Sperling M (1996) Introdução à qualidade das águas e ao tratamento de esgotos, 2nd edn. Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  • Vu VQ (2011) Ggbiplot: A ggplot2 based biplot. R package version 0.55. http://github.com/vqv/ggbiplot

  • Zar JH (1999) Biostatistical Analysis, 4th edn. Northern Illinois University, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We thank the colleagues of the Ichthyology Lab at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul for so many years of field work partnership and Dr. L.R. Malabarba for the monitoring project coordination over more than 10 years.

Funding

The research project was supported by CMPC Celulose Riograndense.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratório de Ictiologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul-Avenida Bento, Gonçalves 9500, Prédio 43435, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil

    Julia Giora, Amanda Carolina Tolentino da Silva, Laísa Wociechoski Cavalheiro, Juliana Mariani Wingert & Clarice Bernhardt Fialho

Authors
  1. Julia Giora
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Amanda Carolina Tolentino da Silva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Laísa Wociechoski Cavalheiro
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Juliana Mariani Wingert
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Clarice Bernhardt Fialho
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

Julia Giora: field work, analysis of specimens, data analysis, and manuscript writing. Amanda Carolina Tolentino da Silva: field work, analysis of specimens, and data analysis. Laísa Wociechoski Cavalheiro: data analysis. Juliana Mariani Wingert: field work and analysis of specimens. Clarice Bernhardt Fialho: analysis of specimens and manuscript writing.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Julia Giora.

Ethics declarations

Ethics approval

Field work and sampling were executed according to the Authorization for Scientific Activities (Permit number 12038) issued by the Sistema de Autorização e Informação em Biodiversidade (SISBIO) (Biodiversity Authorization and Information System) of the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) (Chico Mendes Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, Ministry of the Environment). ICMBio Authorization for Scientific Activities is obligatory for any research project that includes field work in the Brazilian territory. Ethical approval was obtained through the Comissão de Ética no Uso de Animais (CEUA) (Ethics Comity for Animal Use) of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where the study was conducted.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Additional information

Publisher's note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Supplementary information

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary file1 (DOC 470 KB)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Giora, J., Carolina Tolentino da Silva, A., Wociechoski Cavalheiro, L. et al. Long-term aquatic biomonitoring in a Southern Brazil urban center: the Guaíba Lake fish community structure through the years. Environ Biol Fish 105, 605–622 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01272-2

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01272-2

Keywords

Search

Navigation