“…Despite these traits, studies in semiarid regions addressing the occurrence of steady state, considering all the pre-requisites established by Sommer et al (1993), are scarce. Instead, authors have attempted to explain the factors leading to the dominance and persistence of phytoplankton species in these ecosystems, carrying out studies with monthly samplings (Moura, Oliveira, Dantas, & Arruda-Neto, 2007;Dantas, Moura, & Oliveira, 2011;Tavares, Moura, & Dantas, 2017), so it is not possible to apply the concept of steady state in these studies.…”