Replacement or nestedness: what drives short-scale temporal variation in Amazonian macroinvertebrate assemblage structure?
Substituição ou aninhamento: o que determina a variação temporal de curta escala na estrutura da assembleia de macroinvertebrados amazônicos?
Elmo Pereira da Silva; Gabriel Costa Borba; Carine Mariá Cola; Marina Gaona Calderón; Sara Deambrozi Coelho
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Submitted date:
10/13/2025
Accepted date:
05/26/2026
Publication date:
07/16/2026
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