Aquatic insects of streams: investigating the role of environmental and spatial factors on beta diversity

• Grant number: 17/16501-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: February 01, 2018
• End date: January 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Pitágoras da Conceição Bispo
• Grantee: Pitágoras da Conceição Bispo
• Host Investigator: Robert Dan Holt
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Florida, Gainesville (UF), United States

Abstract

The search for understanding the role of environmental and spatial factors on the structuring of communities has been a central issue in ecology and evolution. In this context, during the development of this research plan, we will analyze different datasets on metacommunities of aquatic insects in streams in order to answer the following questions: 1) which are the most important factors in structuring the metacommunities of aquatic insects, environmental or spatial factors? 2) do environmental and/or spatial factors explain similarly different components of beta diversity (total beta diversity, species replacement and nestedness) of metacommunities of aquatic insects? 3) do the beta diversity, and the relative importance of environmental and spatial factors change when considering streams with different sizes and in landscapes with different reliefs (hilly or not hilly)? Our hypotheses are: 1) that environmental factors are more relevant than spatial factors; 2) that beta diversity, especially the replacement component, is higher among smaller streams than among larger streams; 3) that beta diversity is higher among streams in landscapes with hilly relief, where a higher environmental gradient (e.g. greater hydraulic variability) is expected to occur, than among streams in not hilly relief. The present plan will be developed together with the research group of Dr. R. D. Holt (Department of Biology, University of Florida). Therefore, in addition to the specific objectives of this research plan, we intend to establish a long-term research partnership between the research group of Dr. Holt and the research group of the Laboratory of Aquatic Biology of UNESP Assis. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BRANCO, CIRO C. Z.; BISPO, PITAGORAS C.; PERES, CLETO K.; TONETTO, AURELIO F.; KRUPEK, ROGERIO A.; BARFIELD, MICHAEL; HOLT, ROBERT D.. Partitioning multiple facets of beta diversity in a tropical stream macroalgal metacommunity. Journal of Biogeography, v. 47, n. 8, JUN 2020. (17/16501-0, 10/17563-0, 17/16502-6)

BISPO, PITAGORAS C.; ZANINI BRANCO, CIRO C.; NOVAES, MARCOS CARNEIRO; COSTA, LUCAS S. M.; YOKOYAMA, ELISA; BARFIELD, MICHAEL; HOLT, ROBERT D.. artitioning and drivers of aquatic insect beta diversity in mountain stream. FRESHWATER SCIENCE, v. 40, n. 4, DEC 2021. (17/16501-0, 17/16502-6)

DE ALMEIDA, LUCAS HENRIQUE; CARDOSO-LEITE, RICARDO; BOA DEODATO, MARIANA FONTE; BISPO, PITAGORAS DA CONCEICAO. Anacroneuria iporanga (Plecoptera: Perlidae): description of the nymph and biological notes. Zootaxa, v. 4550, n. 1, p. 141-145, JAN 23 2019. (14/25476-0, 12/21196-8, 17/16501-0, 15/22008-9)