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Concordance between macroinvertebrate communities and the typological classification of white and clear-water streams in Western Brazilian Amazonia

2012; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1676-06032012000200009

1678-7927

Fábio de Oliveira Roque, Diego Viana Melo Lima, Tadeu Siqueira, Lisandro Juno Soares Vieira, Maurício Stefanes, Susana Trivinho‐Strixino,

Fish biology, ecology, and behavior

In this study we have attempted to answer whether there is correspondence between aquatic macroinvertebrate communities and the typological classification of white and clean-water streams in western Amazonia lowlands. We worked within two distinct hydrographic basins: Moa River catchment (clear-water streams) and Azul River catchment (white-water streams) in Serra do Divisor National Park, Acre State, Brazil, sampling 10 streams in each basin. A total of 2,952 individuals were collected, distributed among 134 taxa. Our results show that macroinvertebrate communities, at genus as well as family level, are in concordance to a priori classifications that distinguish between white and clear water streams. The main implication of our results for biomonitoring is that biotic variation between white and clear streams can be partitioned regionally, which would improve the bioassessment accuracy of the Amazonian streams.