First report of the invasive Ceratium furcoides (dinoflagellate) in Paracambi Reservoir, Rio de Janeiro: Risks to the world's largest domestic water treatment plant

Abstract

Construction of hydropower plants has dramatically modified the global landscape over the past century (Zarfl et al., 2015), causing direct and indirect human-induced alterations, including changes in the aquatic environment and resident or transient biota effects.These impacts are driven mainly by river discontinuity, more stagnant than normal river water, disruption of fish migration and the