2019
DOI: 10.1071/mf18309
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Ecoregions and stream types help us understand ecological variability in Neotropical reference streams

Abstract: Stream site classification is a fundamental step in defining reference conditions for freshwater bioassessments globally. Landscape regionalisation and stream typology approaches have both been used to determine classes that reduce inherent environmental variation and to show classes with ecological meaning. We evaluated the applicability of ecoregion and stream typology approaches in a river basin located between the Neotropical Savanna and the Atlantic Forest biomes in south-eastern Brazil. We delimited two … Show more

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“…In addition, identifying the most relevant abiotic (physical) variables that allow defining different river types is essential to establish the reference conditions and assess the ecological quality of these water bodies (Pardo et al 2012). The ecological classification of freshwater ecosystems into water body types has been extensively tested in North America and Europe, but this issue has only recently been studied in other continents, such as Asia (Kim et al, 2017;Cai et al, 2019) Journal Pre-proof J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f and South America (Martins et al, 2017;Agra et al, 2018;Pero et al, 2019;Gonzalez-Trujillo et al, 2019). In South America there is a lack of a common regional, legal or management framework to classify and assess the water bodies of the continent, which is fundamental for bio-monitoring processes that are urgently needed considering the increasing pressure over our fluvial ecosystems (IPBES, 2018;Albert et al 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, identifying the most relevant abiotic (physical) variables that allow defining different river types is essential to establish the reference conditions and assess the ecological quality of these water bodies (Pardo et al 2012). The ecological classification of freshwater ecosystems into water body types has been extensively tested in North America and Europe, but this issue has only recently been studied in other continents, such as Asia (Kim et al, 2017;Cai et al, 2019) Journal Pre-proof J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f and South America (Martins et al, 2017;Agra et al, 2018;Pero et al, 2019;Gonzalez-Trujillo et al, 2019). In South America there is a lack of a common regional, legal or management framework to classify and assess the water bodies of the continent, which is fundamental for bio-monitoring processes that are urgently needed considering the increasing pressure over our fluvial ecosystems (IPBES, 2018;Albert et al 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Por exemplo, podese usar as ecorregiões aquáticas (Abell et al 2008) e ecorregiões terrestres (Olson et al 2001) para estabelecer critérios de distribuição, inclusão e exclusão de sítios amostrais (Figura 1). Essas classificações geográficas amplas, embora possuam limitações (Melles et al 2014), podem ser utilizadas em conjunto para se alcançar uma caracterização regional adequada, para identificar unidades de paisagem de interesse e para reduzir a variabilidade nos dados (Martins et al 2018, Agra et al 2019. No Brasil, podese usar classificações ecorregionais de escala global (Olson et al 2001;Abell et al 2008), porém sua aplicabilidade é restrita devido à ausência de subdivisões ecorregionais mais finas.…”
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“…No Brasil, podese usar classificações ecorregionais de escala global (Olson et al 2001;Abell et al 2008), porém sua aplicabilidade é restrita devido à ausência de subdivisões ecorregionais mais finas. Alternativamente, delineamentos ecorregionais podem ser obtidos ad-hoc, especificamente para regiões de interesse, produzindo bons resultados (Agra et al 2019). Por exemplo, Martins et al (2018) delinearam ecorregiões para sua área de estudo, com base em altitude, litologia e uso e cobertura da terra, e as utilizaram para seleção dos locais de amostragem, reduzindo a variabilidade ambiental e biológica entre sítios de referência.…”
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