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Shared or distinct responses between intermediate and satellite stream fish species in an altered Amazonian River?

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Environmental and spatial variables can distinctly influence the occupancy frequency distributions in stream fish. From a metacommunity context, we tested the following hypothesis, intermediate species are governed by dispersal and niche-based processes; in contrast, satellite species are governed by niche-based processes. To test this, we separately analyzed three data sets, the entire metacommunity, the intermediate species and the satellite species, using a forward selection of explanatory variables, and a partial Redundancy Distance Analysis. The fish and 31 variables of 52 stream reaches of a Brazilian river basin in the Western Amazon were collected during the dry period of 2012. The results for all of the data set revealed two different patterns: on one side, satellite species revealed that niche and dispersal-based processes were the most important; on the other side, for intermediate species and for all of the species set, only dispersal-based processes were the most important. For the data set including all of the species and the intermediate species, the variance was explained mainly by landscape scale variables. By contrast, the variance within the satellite species set was explained by local scale variables. Management efforts for intermediate species should be taking at larger scale, but they are usually less critical for the maintenance of aquatic biodiversity; on the other hand, management efforts for satellite species should be taken at smaller scale and based on specific biological and ecological information for the focal species.

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This study was made possible by a collecting license provided by the Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis IBAMA (4355-1) and by funding provided by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP (2010/17494-8) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPQ (306758/2010-5). The authors thank Fernando R. Silva, Mauricio Cetra, Tadeu Siqueira, Virgínia S. Uieda and Francisco Langeani for their useful comments on the manuscript. We thank the anonymous reviewers and the editor in Chief. MAPM received fellowship from the Programa de Apoio a Estudantes de Doutorado do Exterior AUIP/UNESP; FBT and LC are supported by the CNPq; GLB is supported by FAPESP (2012/21916-0 and 2015/05827-6). We thank the UEG for funding the manuscript translation.

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    María Angélica Pérez-Mayorga, Lilian Casatti & Gabriel Lourenço Brejão

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Pérez-Mayorga, M.A., Casatti, L., Teresa, F.B. et al. Shared or distinct responses between intermediate and satellite stream fish species in an altered Amazonian River?. Environ Biol Fish 100, 1527–1541 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-017-0663-5

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