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Copepods and ostracods associated with bromeliads in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2021
Mercado-Salas Nancy F, Khodami Sahar, Martínez Arbizu Pedro
Abstract excerpt
A substantial fraction of the freshwater available in the Neotropical forests is enclosed within the rosettes of bromeliads that form small aquatic islands within a terrestrial landscape. These aquatic oases provide shelter, water, nutrients and resting of aggregation sites for several aquatic organisms, among them crustaceans. However, in comparison with the multitude of studies on open aquatic systems, our...
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