Functional diversity of zooplankton communities in two tropical estuaries (NE Brazil) with different degrees of human-induced disturbance

The Seasonal and Inter-Annual Fluctuations of Plankton Abundance and Community Structure in a North Atlantic Marine Protected Area

“…Changes in copepod size structure are important to monitor as they can indicate changes in the species ecological traits which translate in regime shifts in the functioning of the pelagic ecosystem (Beaugrand et al, 2010;Barton et al, 2013;Litchman et al, 2013). In the North Atlantic Ocean, plankton community shifts toward more diverse but smaller phytoplankton and copepods have been associated with SST increases that were paralleled by an overall decrease in the ecosystem production and carbon cycling (Beaugrand et al, 2010).…”

Seasonality shapes community structure and functional group dynamics of zooplankton in Changjiang River estuary and its adjacent waters

“…This could be explained by that river inflow promotes the growth of phytoplankton adapted to low salinity and high nutrient (Mukherjee et al, 2013;Sun et al, 2021), thus providing food for non-marine zooplankton (Groups 9 and 10). In addition, in winter-spring, the higher FEve (Figure 3 and Figure S3) pointed towards the complementarity of resources uses within zooplankton community as implied by the findings in Mamanguape Estuary (Veríssimo et al, 2017). This could be an adaptive strategy for coping with low-temperature and lowresource environment.…”

“…Considering the ecological relevance and information availability (Brun et al, 2016;Litchman et al, 2013;Pomerleau et al, 2015;Veríssimo et al, 2017), five major functional traits were selected for each taxon as follows:…”

“…In addition, based on trait, functional diversity of the community could be summarized using indices to link the species diversity and ecosystems functioning. For examples, functional diversity has been used in examining the trophic relationships in estuarine planktonic food webs (Araujo et al, 2020), zooplankton functional dynamics with salinity gradient (Helenius et al, 2017) and anthropogenic disturbance (Veríssimo et al, 2017).…”

Does environmental heterogeneity explain β diversity of estuarine fish assemblages? Example from a tropical estuary under the influence of a semiarid climate, Brazil

“…greeleyi . In addition, the abundance of many Engraulidae juveniles and larvae conformed with the higher primary productivity at the upper estuary, probably also due to zooplankton abundance [ 82 ]. Most of the Engraulidae species are known by their filter feeding behaviour, for example, species of Anchoa sp.…”