Reinaldo Luiz Bozelli

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the effects of floods as a process that reduce spatial variability in tropical floodplains and highlight that during low water levels, habitats in river-floodplain systems are isolated from each other and from the main river.

TL;DR: In this article, a synthesis of the current body of knowledge on the distribution, hydrology, and vegetation cover of Brazilian wetlands is provided in order to establish a scientific basis for discussions on a national wetland policy that mandates the sustainable management of Brazil's extremely diverse and complex wetlands.

TL;DR: It is concluded that a key niche process, habitat filtering, strengthened with organism size, possibly because larger organisms are both less plastic in their fundamental niches and more able to be selective in dispersal.

TL;DR: The rotifer genus Brachionus proved to be a better indicator organism for these environmental gradients of trophic state and marine influence caused by anthropogenic impact than the entire zooplankton assemblage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the hypothesis that floods decrease environmental and biological variability using data from a near-pristine floodplain in Central Amazon (Brazil) and found that environmental variability and zooplankton beta diversity were significantly decreased by the flood, and they postulate that floods act as "rubber erasers", reducing the environmental and ecological idiosyncrasies created during low water periods.