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Ostracod (Crustacea) colonization of a native and a non-native macrophyte species of Hydrocharitaceae in the Upper Paraná floodplain (Brazil): an experimental evaluation

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Non-native aquatic macrophytes have invaded different types of ecosystems all over the world. The exotic submersed macrophyte Hydrilla verticillata recently invaded the Paraná basin, Brazil, being recorded by the first time in the natural habitats of this river in 2005. We investigated the effects of this species on ostracod assemblages and compared the abundance, richness, and Shannon–Wiener diversity of ostracod assemblages that colonize the invading species with those that colonize Egeria najas, a native submersed species with similar architecture and physical complexity. Fragments of these two species were left for 28 days in tanks to root and grow and then they were transferred to a floodplain lake where they remained in pairs (one plant of each species; N = 7) during 30 days for colonization by ostracods. A detrented correspondence analysis was used to summarize ostracod assemblage composition. Although there were no significant differences in ostracod abundance, richness and Shannon diversity when analyzed separately, cumulative curves, which permit to eliminate effects of abundance on richness, indicated a significantly higher number of ostracod species on H. verticillata. Assemblage composition was significantly different between both plant species, as shown by the first DCA axis. Our results show that H. verticillata might provide favorable habitats for native ostracod assemblages.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the helpful comments of two reviewers on earlier versions of the manuscript. Figure 1 was kindly furnished by Eduardo Ribeiro da Cunha (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil). This study was funded by Brazilian Council of Research (CNPq), through a Long Term Ecological Program (site number 6). S. M. Thomaz received a CNPq Productivity Researcher Grant and acknowledges this agency for long-term funding. R. P. Mormul acknowledges the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for furnishing a PhD fellowship. We also thank CAPES for funding K. Martens during his trip to Brazil.

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    Roger Paulo Mormul

  2. Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqüicultura (Nupélia), Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Maringá, Paraná, CEP 87020-900, Brazil

    Sidinei Magela Thomaz & Janet Higuti

  3. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Freshwater Biology, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

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Mormul, R.P., Thomaz, S.M., Higuti, J. et al. Ostracod (Crustacea) colonization of a native and a non-native macrophyte species of Hydrocharitaceae in the Upper Paraná floodplain (Brazil): an experimental evaluation. Hydrobiologia 644, 185–193 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0112-3

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