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Front Microbiol. 2018 Mar 01;9:355. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00355. eCollection 2018.

Zooplankton From a Reef System Under the Influence of the Amazon River Plume.

Frontiers in microbiology

Sigrid Neumann-Leitão, Pedro A M C Melo, Ralf Schwamborn, Xiomara F G Diaz, Lucas G P Figueiredo, Andrea P Silva, Renata P S Campelo, Mauro de Melo Júnior, Nuno F A C Melo, Alejandro E S F Costa, Moacyr Araújo, Dóris R A Veleda, Rodrigo L Moura, Fabiano Thompson

Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
  2. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
  3. Instituto Sócioambiental e Recursos Hídricos, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belem, Brazil.
  4. Rede Brasileira de Pesquisas sobre Mudanças Climáticas Globais - Rede CLIMA, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
  5. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Instituto de Biologia e SAGE/COPPE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PMID: 29545783 PMCID: PMC5838004 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00355

Abstract

At the mouth of the Amazon River, a widespread carbonate ecosystem exists below the river plume, generating a hard-bottom reef (∼9500 km

Keywords: Amazon plume; copepod functional trait; diversity; reef system; zooplankton

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