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Thresholds of freshwater biodiversity in response to riparian vegetation loss in the Neotropical region
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Protecting riparian vegetation around streams is vital in reducing the detrimental effects of environmental change on freshwater ecosystems and in maintaining aquatic biodiversity. Thus, identifying ecological thresholds is useful for defining regulatory limits and for guiding the management of riparian zones towards the conservation of freshwater biota. Using nationwide data on fish and invertebrates occurring in small Brazilian streams, we estimated thresholds of native vegetation loss in which there are abrupt changes in the occurrence and abundance of freshwater bioindicators and tested whether there are congruent responses among different biomes, biological groups and riparian buffer sizes. Mean thresholds of native vegetation cover loss varied widely among biomes, buffer sizes and biological groups: ranging from 0.5% to 77.4% for fish, from 2.9% to 37.0% for aquatic invertebrates and from 3.8% to 43.2% for a subset of aquatic invertebrates. Confidence intervals for thresholds were wide, but the minimum values of these intervals were lower for the smaller riparian buffers (50 and 100 m) than larger ones (200 and 500 m), indicating that land use should be kept away from the streams. Also, thresholds occurred at a lower percentage of riparian vegetation loss in the smaller buffers, and were critically lower for invertebrates: reducing only 6.5% of native vegetation cover within a 50‐m riparian buffer is enough to cross thresholds for invertebrates. Synthesis and applications . The high variability in biodiversity responses to loss of native riparian vegetation suggests caution in the use of a single riparian width for conservation actions or policy definitions nationwide. The most sensitive bioindicators can be used as early warning signals of abrupt changes in freshwater biodiversity. In practice, maintaining at least 50‐m wide riparian reserves on each side of streams would be more effective to protect freshwater biodiversity in Brazil. However, incentives and conservation strategies to protect even wider riparian reserves (~100 m) and also taking into consideration the regional context will promote a greater benefit. This information should be used to set conservation goals and to create complementary mechanisms and policies to protect wider riparian reserves than those currently required by the federal law.
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“despite such thresholds being observed in small Amazonian streams (Brejão et al., 2017; Dala‐Corte et al., 2020; Martins et al., 2021) and in floodplain ecosystems in other regions (Chen & Olden, 2020; Filgueira et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Dala‐Corte, R. B., Melo, A. S., Siqueira, T., Bini, L. M., Martins, R. T., Cunico, A. M., Pes, A. M., Magalhães, A. L. B., Godoy, B. S., Leal, C. G., Monteiro‐Júnior, C. S., Stenert, C., Castro, D. M. P., Macedo, D. R., Lima‐Junior, D. P., Gubiani, É. A., Massariol, F. C., Teresa, F. B., Becker, F. G., Souza, F. N., Valente‐Neto, F., Souza, F. L., Salles, F. F., Brejão, G. L., Brito, J. G., Vitule, J. R. S., Simião‐Ferreira, J., Dias‐Silva, K., Albuquerque, L., Juen, L., Maltchik, L., Casatti, L., Montag, L., Rodrigues, M. E., Callisto, M., Nogueira, M. A. M., Santos, M. R., Hamada, N., Pamplin, P. A. Z., Pompeu, P. S., Leitão, R. P., Ruaro, R., Mariano, R., Couceiro, S. R. M., Abilhoa, V., Oliveira, V. C., Shimano, Y., Moretto, Y., Súarez, Y. R., & Roque, F. D. O.
- Affiliations
- Universidade Federal de Goiás (BR)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) (BR)
- Departamento de Ecologia Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) Goiânia GO Brazil
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Paraná (BR)
- Federal University of São João del-Rei (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Pará (BR)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) Belém PA Brazil
- Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (BR)
- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) Belo Horizonte MG Brazil
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR)
- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT) Pontal do Araguaia MT Brazil
- Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (BR)
- Universidade Estadual de Goiás (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (BR)
- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (BR)
- Universidade Federal de Viçosa (BR)
- Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, câmpus de São José do Rio Preto (BR)
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) Manaus AM Brazil
- Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) São José do Rio Preto SP Brazil
- Laboratório de Organismos Aquáticos (LOA) Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC) Ilhéus BA Brazil
- UniFG Centro Universitário (BR)
- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais (IFSULDEMINAS) Poços de Caldas MG Brazil
- Universidade Federal de Alfenas (BR)
- Departamento de Biologia Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA) Lavras MG Brazil
- Universidade Estadual de Maringá (BR)
- Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (BR)
- Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia (MHNCI) Curitiba PR Brazil
- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (BR)
- Laboratório de Ecologia Centro de Estudos em Recursos Naturais (CERNA) Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) Dourados Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) Campo Grande MS Brazil
- Corresponding author
- Dala‐Corte, Renato B.
- ORCID
- Dala‐Corte, Renato B.
- Melo, Adriano S.
- Siqueira, Tadeu
- Bini, Luis M.
- Martins, Renato T.
- Cunico, Almir M.
- Pes, Ana M.
- Magalhães, André L. B.
- Godoy, Bruno S.
- Leal, Cecília G.
- Stenert, Cristina
- Castro, Diego M. P.
- Macedo, Diego R.
- Lima‐Junior, Dilermando P.
- Gubiani, Éder A.
- Massariol, Fabiana C.
- Teresa, Fabrício B.
- Becker, Fernando G.
- Souza, Francine N.
- Valente‐Neto, Francisco
- Souza, Franco L.
- Salles, Frederico F.
- Brejão, Gabriel L.
- Brito, Janaina G.
- Vitule, Jean R. S.
- Simião‐Ferreira, Juliana
- Dias‐Silva, Karina
- Albuquerque, Laysson
- Juen, Leandro
- Maltchik, Leonardo
- Casatti, Lilian
- Montag, Luciano
- Rodrigues, Marciel E.
- Callisto, Marcos
- Nogueira, Maria A. M.
- Hamada, Neusa
- Pamplin, Paulo A. Z.
- Pompeu, Paulo S.
- Leitão, Rafael P.
- Ruaro, Renata
- Mariano, Rodolfo
- Couceiro, Sheyla R. M.
- Abilhoa, Vinícius
- Shimano, Yulie
- Moretto, Yara
- Súarez, Yzel R.
- Roque, Fabio de O.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020-05-29
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1391-1402
- ISSN
- 0021-8901 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2664
- OpenAlex
- W3020838257
- Cited by
- 239
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 38 · 2020: 9
- FWCI
- 14.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Ecology (publishedVersion)
- ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (465610/2014‐5)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Keywords
- riparian vegetation loss, ecological thresholds, freshwater biodiversity, riparian buffers, riparian reserves, aquatic bioindicators, freshwater fish, aquatic invertebrates, small streams, Neotropical region, land use, early warning indicators, conservation policy
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