Environmental impacts shape the density-size relationship of benthic macroinvertebrates in Amazonian streams (Serra dos Carajás, Pará, Brazil)
Impactos ambientais moldam a relação densidade-tamanho de macroinvertebrados bentônicos em igarapés amazônicos (Serra dos Carajás, Pará, Brasil)
Maria Eduarda Cabral Liberal; Camila Pinto Leão; Jaqueline Silva de Oliveira; Francisco Valente-Neto; Bruno Spacek Godoy
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Submitted date:
10/17/2024
Accepted date:
06/24/2025
Publication date:
08/18/2025
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