Michaela de Melo

Michaela de Melo
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  • PhD Sciences
  • Research Associate at University of Quebec in Montreal

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University of Quebec in Montreal
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  • Research Associate
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University of Quebec in Montreal
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Publications (19)
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Freshwater environments and coastal marine areas provide key ecosystem services to society and serve as habitats for biodiversity. However, they face major challenges from human activities and climate factors, leading to global degradation. The effect of these agents depends on geographic location and climate, among other factors. To comprehensivel...
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Indigenous-driven and community-partnered research projects seeking to develop salient, legitimate, and credible knowledge bases for environmental decision-making require a multiple knowledge systems approach. When involving partners in addition to communities, diverging perspectives and priorities may arise, making the pathways to engaging in prin...
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Dissolved organic matter (DOM) assemblages in freshwater rivers are formed from mixtures of simple to complex compounds that are highly variable across time and space. These mixtures largely form due to the environmental heterogeneity of river networks and the contribution of diverse allochthonous and autochthonous DOM sources. Most studies are, ho...
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Introduction Dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition varies over space and time, with a multitude of factors driving the presence or absence of each compound found in the complex DOM mixture. Compounds ubiquitously present across a wide range of river systems (hereafter termed core compounds) may differ in chemical composition and reactivity fro...
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Boreal rivers transport and process large amounts of organic and inorganic materials derived from their catchments, yet quantitative estimates and patterns of carbon (C) transport and emissions in these large rivers are scarce relative to those of high-latitude lakes and headwater streams. Here, we present the results of a large-scale survey of 23...
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The Eastern James Bay has been undergoing major shifts in its physical, chemical, and ecological functioning over the past decades, driven by a combination of climate and landscape changes, and human intervention that includes the damming of major regional rivers. Rivers play a role in the functioning of the Bay, delivering not only freshwater and...
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The biogeography of bacterial communities is a key topic in Microbial Ecology. Regarding continental water, most studies are carried out in the northern hemisphere, leaving a gap on microorganism’s diversity patterns on a global scale. South America harbours approximately one third of the world’s total freshwater resources, and is one of these unde...
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Though community-based scientific approaches are becoming more common, many scientific efforts are conducted by small groups of researchers that together develop a concept, analyze data, and interpret results that ultimately translate into a publication. Here, we present a community effort that breaks these traditional boundaries of the publication...
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Species prevalence across the landscape is related to their local abundance, which is a result of deterministic and stochastic processes that select organisms capable of recolonizing sites where they were once extinct, a process known as the rescue effect. The occupancy-frequency distribution (OFD) describes these patterns and has been extensively...
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Species prevalence across the landscape is related to their local abundance, which is a result of deterministic and stochastic processes that select organisms capable of recolonizing sites where they were once extinct; a process known as the rescue effect. The occupancy-frequency distribution (OFD) describes these patterns and has been extensively...
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Bacterioplankton comprises a highly diverse group of microorganisms, which are dominant in aquatic ecosystems, and play a central role in ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycles. Due to their high turnover and dispersal rates, as well as high adaptability and plasticity, microbes are likely to respond quickly to environmental changes and pe...
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Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the main substrate for aquatic prokaryotes, fuelling their metabolism and controlling community composition. Amazonian rivers transport and process large fluxes of terrestrial DOM, but little is known about the link between DOM composition and heterotrophic bacteria in the Amazon basin. The aims of this study were...
Thesis
O bacterioplâncton desempenha papel fundamental no funcionamento de ecossistemas aquáticos e nos ciclos biogeoquímicos. Apesar do crescente interesse em se estudar a ecologia desses microrganismos, pouco se sabe sobre a estrutura de comunidades bacterianas e sobre os fatores que regulam sua composição e atividade, especialmente em redes hidrológica...
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• Understanding spatial and temporal dynamics of microbial communities is a central challenge in microbial ecology since microorganisms play a key role in ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycles. Amazonian aquatic systems comprise a dynamic mosaic of heterogeneous habits but are understudied and there is limited information about the mechan...
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Tropical reservoirs are main carbon sources to the atmosphere, and bacterial metabolism is a key process in these emissions. Here, we explored the drivers of bacterial metabolism in four tropical cascading reservoirs forming a trophic state gradient, and compared them with those found in the literature (mainly from temperate regions). Bacterial pro...
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Recent studies from temperate lakes indicate that eutrophic systems tend to emit less carbon dioxide (CO2) and bury more organic carbon (OC) than oligotrophic ones, rendering them CO2 sinks in some cases. However, the scarcity of data from tropical systems is critical for a complete understanding of the interplay between eutrophication and aquatic...
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We evaluated in situ rates of bacterial carbon processing in Amazonian floodplain lakes and mainstems, during both high water (HW) and low water (LW) phases (p < 0.05). Our results showed that bacterial production (BP) was lower and more variable than bacterial respiration, determined as total respiration. Bacterial carbon demand was mostly account...
Technical Report
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A Report on Course on Metabolism of Brazilian Semiarid Inland Waters 14-20 July, 2014 (Ecological Station, Seridó (ESS), Brazil)

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