2019
DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20180099
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Effects of deforestation on headwater stream fish assemblages in the Upper Xingu River Basin, Southeastern Amazonia

Abstract: The expansion of the Amazonian agricultural frontier represents the most extensive land cover change in the world, detrimentally affecting stream ecosystems which collectively harbor the greatest diversity of freshwater fish on the planet. Our goal was to test the hypotheses that deforestation affects the abundance, richness, and taxonomic structure of headwater stream fish assemblages in the Upper Xingu River Basin, in Southeastern Amazonia. Standardized sampling surveys in replicated first order streams demo… Show more

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“…Porém é comparável com os resultados de inventários em pequenos igarapés em outras microbacias amazônicas em condições semelhantes de redução da cobertura florestal ciliar. Entre esses: microbacias da Amazônia Central (23 espécies - Beltrão et al, 2018), Meridional (39 espécies -Santos et al, 2017, Ocidental (32 espécies - Virgílio et al, 2018) e Oriental (29 espécies - Ilha et al, 2019).…”
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“…Porém é comparável com os resultados de inventários em pequenos igarapés em outras microbacias amazônicas em condições semelhantes de redução da cobertura florestal ciliar. Entre esses: microbacias da Amazônia Central (23 espécies - Beltrão et al, 2018), Meridional (39 espécies -Santos et al, 2017, Ocidental (32 espécies - Virgílio et al, 2018) e Oriental (29 espécies - Ilha et al, 2019).…”
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“…Essa degradação de ecossistemas aquáticos é relativamente maior quando consideramos que apesar do conjunto formar uma rede hidrográfica que representa até 90% da área de uma bacia, cada igarapé é um canal de pequena escala, mais frágil aos distúrbios que os grandes rios e consequentemente mais suscetível à degradação de suas estruturas físicas, químicas, relações ecológicas naturais e até o colapso e extinção de populações e/ou espécies nativas (Leal et al, 2017;Ilha et al, 2019).…”
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“…Restricting our analysis only to the dominant fish species in the assemblage (relative abundance >2% [27]), we used LRT to compare mixed-effect Gaussian glm fitted to the log of catch per-unit-effort (CPUE) of each species in each stream section. The first model had only the additive fixed effects of fish species and habitat type (i.e.…”
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“…Although Amazonian deforestation rates appeared to be slowing in the first decade of the 21 st century (Nepstad et al 2014), since then, they have continually increased to unprecedented levels (Escobar 2019a, Ferrante andFearnside 2019) as Brazil's recent policies have progressively weakened environmental laws in favor of the energy production and agribusiness sectors (Rajão and Georgiadou 2014;Brancalion et al 2016;Fearnside 2016a;Abessa et al 2019;Ferrante and Fearnside 2019;Scarrow 2019). Across the Amazon, the construction of roads that enable transport of timber (legal and illegal), deforestation for cattle ranching and the establishment of large monocultures (e.g., soy, corn, cotton) are the leading causes of Amazonian deforestation and deterioration of soil and water quality (Abell et al 2011;Durigan et al 2013;Macedo et al 2013;Dias et al 2015;Lessa et al 2015;Lees et al 2016;Marmontel et al 2018;de Mello et al 2018a;de Mello et al 2018b;Rodrigues et al 2018;Zimbres et al 2018;Gauthier et al 2019;Ilha et al 2019;Klarenberg et al 2019). In soybeans alone, Brazil increased its gross production by 94% between 1991 and 2013 (FAO 2016).…”
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confidence: 99%