Advancing tropical biomonitoring: in-depth description of the temporal variation of Trichoptera communities

• Grant number: 18/23111-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 21, 2018
• End date: March 19, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Victor Satoru Saito
• Grantee: Nathalia Espinossi Stoppa
• Supervisor: Nuria Bonada
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/12138-8 - Are biomonitoring metrics robust to natural temporal variation in aquatic communities?, BP.IC

Abstract

Temporal characterization is elementary to the understanding of ecosystem dynamics and the consideration of the natural variation in time is indispensable for the characterization of bioindicator communities. Due to the high stochasticity of tropical environments, there are currently few studies on the temporal variation of aquatic communities bioindicators of these regions. Thus, the present research project seeks to characterize in different ways the temporal beta diversity of communities aiming an accurate representation of Trichoptera communities from the Itanhaém river basin. Based on this, a Scientific Initiation project was originally proposed to study and characterize macroinvertebrate communities over time. After the first year of the Scientific Initiation project, many interesting results were obtained and were presented in the technical reports written by the student. Due to the ecological complexity of obtained results, we propose to study more deeply the variation in Trichoptera communities using beta diversity components in the second year of the Scientific Initiation project. In this regard, we propose the following international internship at the department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of University of Barcelona (Spain), which has several expert teams, such as the research group of Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management (FEHM-Lab), headed by Prof.ª Dr.ª Núria Bonada. In this internship the student will have the opportunity to work and collaborate in one of the most important research universities in Europe. This BEPE-proposal is to spend a period of 3 months at University of Barcelona, under the supervision of Prof.ª Dr.ª Núria Bonada working on in-depth analysis of temporal beta diversity and a total characterization of Trichoptera communities of the Itanhaém river basin. (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)

SAITO, VICTOR S.; STOPPA, NATHALIA E.; SHIMABUKURO, ERIKA M.; CANEDO-ARGUELLES, MIGUEL; BONADA, NURIA; SIQUEIRA, TADEU. Stochastic colonisation dynamics can be a major driver of temporal beta diversity in Atlantic Forest coastal stream communities. Freshwater Biology, v. 66, n. 8, p. 1560-1570, AUG 2021. (19/04033-7, 13/50424-1, 13/20540-0, 18/23111-6, 17/12138-8)