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Ecological factors shaping cyanobacterial assemblages in a coastal lake system

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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes responsible for most of the global primary production, recurrently showing high abundance levels in freshwater ecosystems. Here, we used variation partitioning to quantify the relative effects of environmental (water parameters), biotic (abundance of eukaryotic phytoplankton) and spatial (geographic distance) factors on cyanobacteria distribution, using taxonomic (species and order levels) and functional (Reynolds Functional Groups and life form) approaches in a coastal lake system (southern Brazil). Cyanobacteria distribution was affected by all factors, but mainly by environmental conditions. Overall, environmental and biotic factors were more important in shaping the cyanobacterial distribution using a taxonomic approach than using a functional-group approach. Filamentous cyanobacteria (both heterocystous and non-heterocystous) were influenced mainly by the environmental variables, and coccoid species by the spatial fraction. Our results demonstrate that taxonomic and functional approaches may reflect different responses to ecological factors, thus being complementary for a better understanding of cyanobacterial distribution patterns in lake systems.

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The first author is supported by a student fellowship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Finance Code 001 (File No. 1588368). We thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for the financial support granted for this project (Process No. 474279/2013-8). We also thank Bianca Damacena for the translation of the English version of the text and Janet W. Reid for reviewing the manuscript.

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Cabezudo, M.M., Ribeiro, K.F., Schneck, F. et al. Ecological factors shaping cyanobacterial assemblages in a coastal lake system. Hydrobiologia 847, 2225–2239 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04250-w

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