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Distinct responses of Copepoda and Cladocera diversity to climatic, environmental, and geographic filters in the La Plata River basin

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The distribution of freshwater cladocerans and copepods and the drivers of beta diversity along La Plata basin were studied. We propose that local environmental conditions, dispersal limitation, and climate affect cladocerans and copepods differently owing to their variances in terms of life strategies. We calculated beta diversity using four dissimilarity metrics, and also the relative importance of spatial, environmental, and climatic variables by partitioning variance and forward selection procedure coupled with a partial redundancy analysis. Beta diversity patterns were characterized by a high turnover in the subbasins and a small contribution of nestedness. Forward selection evidenced the influence of total nitrogen and total suspended matter for both copepods and cladocerans, suggesting a strong role of eutrophication in controlling their turnover, but spatial distance, precipitation, and mean temperature of winter were related only to copepods. The last one suggests a likely role of geographic isolation driving speciation and endemism in Copepoda and reinforces the strong effect of climatic variation resulting in the high endemism patterns one finds in the Neotropical region.

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The authors wish to thank the FAPESP for financial support (process numbers 2008/02015-7 and 2011/18358-3 for GPN; 2011/23444-6 for JRDJ; 2009/06149-0 for DAON; and 2009/00014-6 for MGN); J.L. Portinho and S. Casanova for help in fieldwork; and the anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions.

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  1. Centro de Ciências da Natureza, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Campus Lagoa do Sino, Buri, São Paulo, Brazil

    Gilmar Perbiche-Neves

  2. Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Victor Satoru Saito

  3. Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Campus Sosígenes Costa, Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil

    Nadson Ressyé Simões

  4. Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rubião Jr., Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

    José Roberto Debastiani-Júnior, Danilo Augusto de Oliveira Naliato & Marcos Gomes Nogueira

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Perbiche-Neves, G., Saito, V.S., Simões, N.R. et al. Distinct responses of Copepoda and Cladocera diversity to climatic, environmental, and geographic filters in the La Plata River basin. Hydrobiologia 826, 113–127 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3722-9

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