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Functional diversity and adaptative strategies of planktonic and periphytic algae in isolated tropical floodplain lake

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Functional diversity and adaptative strategies of planktonic and periphytic algae in isolated tropical floodplain lake. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that after a great magnitude and high duration of flood pulse in floodplain, functional diversity of phytoplankton and phycoperiphyton communities will be higher during high water. The strategies’ dynamics evaluated during high and low water periods consisted of size classes, life forms, and functional groups. For the phytoplankton, the adaptations to floating, and for phycoperiphyton, the intensity and structure for attachment to substrate were also analyzed. Functional diversity was calculated from functional dendrograms of species. Functional diversity, richness, and density of both communities presented the greatest values during the high waters. In the high waters, Cryptomonas marsonii Skuja was dominant in plankton and Pseudoanabaena skujae Claus in periphyton, while in the low water, Merismopedia tenuissima Lemm. was dominant in plankton and Fragilaria capucina Desm. was dominant in periphyton. Thus, the flood pulse promoted the dominance of free-floating species in plankton, during the high water, and of metaphytic species in periphyton. In the low water, we observed the dominance of species with higher surface/volume ratio in plankton, and strongly attached in periphyton. We concluded that, in isolated floodplain lake, possibly the flood pulse directs the functional diversity of phytoplankton and phycoperiphyton.

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To Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for the doctoral degree scholarship to the first two authors, to the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for the productivity grant to Liliana Rodrigues, to the Long Term Ecological Research (CNPq-PELD-Brazil), and to the Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqüicultura (NUPELIA) for technical and logistical support during the performance of this study.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais (PEA), Maringa, Brazil

    Bárbara Dunck & Jascieli Carla Bortolini

  2. Departamento de Biologia Geral (DBI), Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aquicultura (NUPELIA), Av. Colombo, no 5790, Bloco G-90, CEP: 87020-900, Maringa, PR, Brazil

    Bárbara Dunck, Liliana Rodrigues, Luzia Cleide Rodrigues, Susicley Jati & Sueli Train

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Dunck, B., Bortolini, J.C., Rodrigues, L. et al. Functional diversity and adaptative strategies of planktonic and periphytic algae in isolated tropical floodplain lake. Braz. J. Bot 36, 257–266 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-013-0029-y

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