Flora de comunidades de macroalgas lóticas de fragmentos florestais remanescentes da região noroeste do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Abstract

-(Lotic macroalgal communities flora from remnant forest fragments from the northwest region of São Paulo State, Brazil). Seventeen streams in 12 forest fragments were sampled during the dry season (June to August of 2007 and of 2008). Sixteen species belonging to 14 genera were found. Cyanophyta and Chlorophyta were the best represented algal division (44 and 38%, respectively), followed by Rhodophyta (12%) and Heterokontophyta (6%). Global species number was low, probably due to predominance of sand-clay sub…