La relation diversité-productivité est au cœur des enjeux actuels dans de nombreux écosystèmes. Dans l’étude de cette relation en peuplements forestiers, un aspect de la diversité a été longtemps négligé : l’hétérogénéité des tailles. Nous nous intéressons à l’effet de l’hétérogénéité des tailles sur la production en peuplements purs et mélangés et à ses interactions avec les traits fonctionnels des espèces. L’utilisation de données de l’inventaire forestier national nous a permis de démontrer un effet globalement négatif de l’hétérogénéité des tailles en peuplements purs de différentes espèces ainsi qu'en peuplements mélangés. Dans ce dernier cas, nous avons mis en évidence un effet positif sur la production de la richesse spécifique et un effet positif d’une diminution de la tolérance à l’ombre avec la taille des arbres c’est à dire lorsque les espèces les moins tolérantes dominent la canopée. Nous discutons les intérêts et limites de de ces résultats et leurs conséquences à plus ou moins long terme pour la stabilité et la résilience des peuplements forestiers. / Understanding the link between diversity ecosystem functioning has been a major topic of ecology for the last decades. When studying the relationship between diversity and productivity in tree populations and communities, size heterogeneity has often been disregarded. Our study focuses on the effect of size heterogeneity on the production of pure and mixed forest stands as wells its interactions with species’ functional traits. By using national forest inventory data, we were able to demonstrate a negative effect of size heterogeneity in both pure and mixed stands. In the latter case, we showed a positive effect of species richness as well as a positive effect of a decrease of shade tolerance with tree size, i.e. when the less tolerant species are dominant in the overstorey. We propose potential mechanisms to explain our results and discuss the consequences of such findings at larger time scale for the stability and resilience of forest stands.

abstract: Although the issue of factorial invariance has received increasing attention in the literature, the focus is typically on differences in factor structure across groups that are directly observed, such as those denoted by sex or ethnicity. While establishing factorial invariance across observed groups is a requisite step in making meaningful cross-group comparisons, failure to attend to possible sources of latent class heterogeneity in the form of class-based differences in factor structure has the potential to compromise conclusions with respect to observed groups and may result in misguided attempts at instrument development and theory refinement. The present studies examined the sensitivity of two widely used confirmatory factor analytic model fit indices, the chi-square test of model fit and RMSEA, to latent class differences in factor structure. Two primary questions were addressed. The first of these concerned the impact of latent class differences in factor loadings with respect to model fit in a single sample reflecting a mixture of classes. The second question concerned the impact of latent class differences in configural structure on tests of factorial invariance across observed groups. The results suggest that both indices are highly insensitive to class-based differences in factor loadings. Across sample size conditions, models with medium (0.2) sized loading differences were rejected by the chi-square test of model fit at rates just slightly higher than the nominal .05 rate of rejection that would be expected under a true null hypothesis. While rates of rejection increased somewhat when the magnitude of loading difference increased, even the largest sample size with equal class representation and the most extreme violations of loading invariance only had rejection rates of approximately 60%. RMSEA was also insensitive to class-based differences in factor loadings, with mean values across conditions suggesting a degree of fit that would generally be regarded as exceptionally good in practice. In contrast, both indices were sensitive to class-based differences in configural structure in the context of a multiple group analysis in which each observed group was a mixture of classes. However, preliminary evidence suggests that this sensitivity may contingent on the form of the cross-group model misspecification. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Psychology 2011

abstract: In an effort to begin validating the large number of discovered candidate biomarkers, proteomics is beginning to shift from shotgun proteomic experiments towards targeted proteomic approaches that provide solutions to automation and economic concerns. Such approaches to validate biomarkers necessitate the mass spectrometric analysis of hundreds to thousands of human samples. As this takes place, a serendipitous opportunity has become evident. By the virtue that as one narrows the focus towards "single" protein targets (instead of entire proteomes) using pan-antibody-based enrichment techniques, a discovery science has emerged, so to speak. This is due to the largely unknown context in which "single" proteins exist in blood (i.e. polymorphisms, transcript variants, and posttranslational modifications) and hence, targeted proteomics has applications for established biomarkers. Furthermore, besides protein heterogeneity accounting for interferences with conventional immunometric platforms, it is becoming evident that this formerly hidden dimension of structural information also contains rich-pathobiological information. Consequently, targeted proteomics studies that aim to ascertain a protein's genuine presentation within disease- stratified populations and serve as a stepping-stone within a biomarker translational pipeline are of clinical interest. Roughly 128 million Americans are pre-diabetic, diabetic, and/or have kidney disease and public and private spending for treating these diseases is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. In an effort to create new solutions for the early detection and management of these conditions, described herein is the design, development, and translation of mass spectrometric immunoassays targeted towards diabetes and kidney disease. Population proteomics experiments were performed for the following clinically relevant proteins: insulin, C-peptide, RANTES, and parathyroid hormone. At least thirty-eight protein isoforms were detected. Besides the numerous disease correlations confronted within the disease-stratified cohorts, certain isoforms also appeared to be causally related to the underlying pathophysiology and/or have therapeutic implications. Technical advancements include multiplexed isoform quantification as well a "dual- extraction" methodology for eliminating non-specific proteins while simultaneously validating isoforms. Industrial efforts towards widespread clinical adoption are also described. Consequently, this work lays a foundation for the translation of mass spectrometric immunoassays into the clinical arena and simultaneously presents the most recent advancements concerning the mass spectrometric immunoassay approach. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Biochemistry 2011

Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in predator activity can generate and influence the availability of refugia to prey. In eastern forests, white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) are abundant generalist rodents, and large-scale removal experiments have confirmed they are important predators of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) pupae and songbird nests and eggs. Models predict the extinction of gypsy moth populations when confronted with abundant mouse populations, but small-scale (10s of m) heterogeneity in rodent activity may allow for the persistence of moth populations. I quantified the magnitude, variability, temporal persistence, and spatial structure of white-footed mouse and eastern chipmunk activity, and evaluated the effects of small-scale (30 x 30 m "spots") rodent removal, on 3 pairs of oak-dominated plots for 3, 2-week periods in summers 2008 and 2009 at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA. Small-mammal track activity (1/check) was best fit by a beta-binomial distribution, and the mean and CV ranges of mouse and chipmunk track activity were similar between years. Disattenuated correlations of mouse and chipmunk activity were similar between sampling periods, as well as between years. I found little evidence of spatial structure in rodent activity at the scales sampled (15-250 m). Mean local track activity counterintuitively increased in removal spots compared to control spots for mice in 2008 and chipmunks in 2009. Local, between-year track activity was more strongly correlated and of greater magnitude in persistent removal spots than in non-persistent removal spots for both mice and chipmunks Environmental factors like abundant alternative food sources can influence predator foraging behavior by concentrating predator space use and altering predation rates on incidental prey items. However, the spatial scale of this aggregative effect, and impact on consumption rates on incidental prey items, are not well understood. In spring 2010, I conducted live-trapping, measured local rodent track activity, and quantified consumption rates on two incidental prey items (almonds [Prunus dulcis] and maple [Acer saccharum] seeds) on 6 plots provided with 3 supplemental food treatments (control, corn, and sunflower seeds) at Touch of Nature Environmental Center, Carbondale, IL, USA. A half-normal, cosine detectability function best fit our live-trapping data in both pre- and post-experiment trapping sessions, but considerable support remained for other models. Overall mean track activity was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments. I found a significant interaction effect of treatment and distance, and significantly increased activity in control treatments at distances of 0, 10, and 40 m. Overall mean almond and maple seed consumption was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments, but was greater in corn than sunflower treatments and increased from period 1 to period 3 at all distances. Mean almond consumption by mouse only and mouse + unknown predator groups was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments. Mean maple seed consumption by mouse only and mouse + unknown predator groups was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments.

This dissertation investigates how competition among heterogeneous firms affects R&D in quality enhancement in a quality-ladder type framework for a Cournot oligopolistic industry. The research also analyzes the welfare implications of various policies that promotes R&D. Some of the theoretical predictions are then tested empirically using firm-level data for Bangladesh from the World Bank's enterprise survey. Chapter 1 shows that a rise in the cost of production of the competitor will induce a firm to invest more in R&D if and only if the quality difference between the existing product and the product emerging from R&D activities is sufficiently large. Also, welfare-reducing effect of helping a `minor' firm is lower in the presence of possible quality differences. Empirical results supports the theoretical findings. Chapter 2 shows that protecting domestic industry of high quality goods encourages firms to invest more in R&D. The size of the optimal tariff depends on the degree of product differentiation and market share of the foreign firms and is not necessarily positive. Chapter 3 shows that a small tariff imposed by the trading partner on the high quality good will deter R&D. However, as the tariff gets bigger, the relationship changes sign. The size of an R&D subsidy depends on the market share of the firms. Empirical results provide support to the theoretical findings.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 caroline_conrado_ferreira.pdf: 1078476 bytes, checksum: 6ffb3507340a6d5dff970372385e3ea7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) / Foram utilizadas esp?cies de Coleoptera Scarabaeidae como bioindicadores para avaliar a efetividade de faixas de vegeta??o em recomposi??o como corredores ecol?gicos entremeados a plantios comerciais de eucalipto. O estudo foi desenvolvido em cinco munic?pios do Alto Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais. Comparou-se a estimativa da diversidade de esp?cies, relacionando os diferentes tipos de isca utilizados e os ecossistemas. A amostragem foi realizada em seis tipologias: regenera??o inicial e avan?ada, com presen?a e aus?ncia de remanescentes de Eucalyptus spp, o Cerrado e o plantio comercial. Utilizou-se armadilhas pitfall, iscadas com fezes humanas, fezes bovinas, ba?o bovino apodrecido e banana apodrecida. Estimadores de diversidade, de compartilhamento de esp?cies e de similaridade foram utilizados para aferir a diversidade alfa e beta das ?reas estudadas. Foram realizadas an?lises de correspond?ncia e An?lise de Esp?cies Indicadoras. A presen?a de remanescentes de Eucalyptus spp. parece interferir nos resultados de riqueza, diversidade local e regional dos besouros. O atrativo composto por fezes humanas apresentou maior efici?ncia, atraindo maior quantidade de indiv?duos, al?m da maior riqueza de esp?cies na maioria das fitofisionomias estudadas. Do total de esp?cies analisadas como indicadoras menos de 25% apresentaram prefer?ncia por alguma das quatro iscas e/ou por alguma das seis fitofisionomias. A heterogeneidade dos habitat afetou a riqueza e influenciou a estrutura e composi??o de esp?cies da assembleia de besouros escarabe?deos nas faixas ecol?gicas entremeadas a eucaliptocultura. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncia Florestal, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2015. / To evaluate the effectiveness of native vegetation ranges on recovery as ecological corridors intermingled between eucalypt plantation, species of Scarabaeidae were used as bio-indicators. The study was conducted in five districts of Alto Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais. A comparisson of the estimated diversity of species of the Scarabaeidae was made, relating different types of bait used and phytophysiognomies found in the area. Sampling was carried out in six sampling sites, including sites in early and advanced regeneration, with and without remnants of Eucalyptus ssp., the Cerrado and the commercial planting. We used pitfall traps, baited with human feces, bovine feces, the attraction consists of human feces proved to be the most efficient, attracting greater number of individuals and species and rotten banana. Diversity, species sharing and similarity estimators were obtained to measure alpha and beta diversity of the studied areas. The presence of remnants of Eucalyptus spp. wealth appears to interfere in results, diversity and local regional beetles. Increased number of individuals, beyond the higher species richness in most of the studied vegetation types. Among the total sampled species and analyzed as indicator species, less than 25% had presented preference for any of the four baits and any of the six phytophysiognomies. The heterogeneity of habitat had affected the richness and had influenced the estructure and composition of species of the assembly of escarabaeideos beetles at the ecological zones intermingled eucalyptus plantations.

As limitações resultantes do avanço das tecnologias de integração, como o crescente aumento da densidade de potência, levando à necessidade de redução da frequência de operação dos circuitos somados à necessidade de redução do consumo energético, sejam por motivos ecológicos ou para melhor suprir dispositivos portáteis, trazem a necessidade de maior intervenção e personalização do hardware em relação às exigências do software. Em diversos níveis estas intervenções podem ser aplicadas, onde a granularidade pode variar desde elementos de processamento sendo completamente desativados até processadores tendo apenas unidades funcionais sendo desativadas, memórias cache reconfiguradas em tamanho e associatividade, etc. Entretanto, a reconfiguração do hardware deve atingir todas as etapas destes sistemas para que seja possível atingir redução satisfatória em termos de potência e consumo de energia. Além da integração acelerada de elementos de processamento em um mesmo circuito integrado, a crescente concentração de heterogêneas tarefas em um mesmo dispositivo, leva à integração de elementos de processamento também heterogêneos, e por consequência diferentes comportamentos variando de acordo com a aplicação. Para justificar esta reconfigurabilidade e heterogeneidade dos elementos de processamento este trabalho apresenta um estudo que possibilita a observação da execução de diferentes aplicações em elementos de processamento amplamente reconfiguráveis. Para que a reconfigurabilidade e heterogeneidade possam ser aplicáveis, foi inserida uma ferramenta capaz de manter a compatibilidade entre o elemento de processamento mestre e os elementos de processamento aceleradores reconfiguráveis disponíveis. Os experimentos apresentados baseiam-se na necessidade de manter a menor quantidade de silício ativa, acelerando o código fonte enquanto reduz-se o consumo de energia. Somada a redução de energia, a compatibilidade binária é levada em consideração buscando a manutenção da produtividade quando da utilização de sistemas heterogêneos reconfiguráveis. / The limitations resulting from the advancement of integration technologies, such as the increasing power density, leading to the need to reduce the operating frequency of the circuits added to the need to reduce energy consumption, whether for environmental reasons or to better serve mobile devices, bring the need for greater intervention and hardware customization to the demands of the software. To varying degrees these interventions can be applied where the granularity can range from processing elements being completely disabled until processors having only functional units being disabled, reset cache memories in size and associativity, etc. However, the reconfiguration of hardware should reach all stages of these systems so that you can achieve satisfactory reduction in power and energy consumption. In addition to the accelerated integration of processing elements on a single integrated circuit, the increasing concentration of heterogeneous tasks in a same device, also leads to the integration of heterogeneous processing elements, and therefore different behavior varies according to the application. To justify this reconfigurability and variety of processing elements this work presents a study that allows the observation of the implementation of different applications in widely reconfigurable processing elements. For reconfigurability and heterogeneity may be applicable, a tool to maintain compatibility between the master processing element and accelerators reconfigurable processing elements available was inserted. The experiments presented are based on the need to maintain the lowest amount of active silicon, accelerating the source code while reducing power consumption. Added to energy reduction, binary compatibility is taken into consideration seeking to maintain productivity when using reconfigurable heterogeneous systems.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Geography / Douglas Goodin / Quantitative remote sensing provides an effective way of estimating and mapping vegetation characteristics over an extensive area. The spatially explicit distribution of canopy vegetative properties from remote sensing imagery can be further used for studies of spatial patterns and processes in grassland systems. My research focused on remote sensing of grassland vegetation characteristics and its applications to spatial analysis of grassland dynamics involving interactions between pyric herbivory and vegetation heterogeneity. In remote sensing of vegetation characteristics, (1) I estimated the foliar pigments and nutritional elements at the leaf level using hyperspectral data. The foliar pigments, chlorophylls and carotenoids, were retrieved by inverting the physical radiative transfer model, PROSPECT. The nutritional elements were modeled empirically using partial least squares (PLS) regression. Correlations were found between the leaf pigments and nutritional elements. This provided insight into the use of pigment-related vegetation indices as a proxy of the plant nutritional quality. (2) At the canopy level, I assessed the use of the broadband vegetation indices, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and green-red vegetation index (GRVI), in detecting vegetation quantity (LAI) and quality (leaf and canopy chlorophyll concentrations). The relationships between vegetation indices and vegetation characteristics were examined in the physical model, PROSAIL, and validated by a field dataset collected from a tallgrass prairie. NDVI showed high correlations with LAI and canopy chlorophylls. GRVI performed even better than NDVI in estimating LAI. A new index GNVI (green-red normalized vegetation index) that combined NDVI and GRVI was proposed to extract leaf chlorophyll concentration. These findings showed the potential of using broadband vegetation indices from multispectral remote sensors to monitor vegetation quantity and quality over a wide spatial extent. In the spatial analysis, I examined interactions between pyric herbivory and grassland heterogeneity at multiple scales from the remote sensing imagery. (3) At a coarse, watershed level, I evaluated effects of fire and large herbivores on the spatial distribution of canopy nitrogen. It was found that the interactive effects of fire and ungulate grazing were present in the watersheds burnt in spring, where a high level of ungulate grazing reduced vegetation density, but promoted canopy heterogeneity. Two grazer species, bison and cattle, were compared. Differences in the vegetation canopy between sites with bison and cattle were observed, which may be related to differences in the grazing intensity, forage behavior and habitat selection between the two grazer species. (4) At a fine, patch level (30 m), bison forage pattern was examined associated with canopy nitrogen heterogeneity. Bison preference for patches with high canopy nitrogen was evident in May. Later in June – September, bison tended to avoid sites with high canopy nitrogen. Vegetation heterogeneity showed significant influences on bison habitat selection in June. Bison preferred sites with low variance in canopy nitrogen, where the patch types were highly aggregated and equitably proportioned.

O objetivo geral deste trabalho consiste na proposta de se conceber performatividade e heterogeneidade como princípios gerais e inextricáveis entre si da atividade linguageira do homem. Na nossa acepção, essa inextricabilidade permeia, no plano da enunciação, toda e qualquer manifestação linguístico-discursiva. Quanto ao postulado da performatividade, concebemo-lo com base no pensamento de John Langshaw Austin (1962), enquanto o da heterogeneidade, apreendemo-lo, por sua vez, junto a Jacqueline Authier-Reveuz (1982). Em relação à noção de heterogeneidade, esta compreende, no âmbito desta tese, tanto as manifestações linguísticas que comportam explicitamente ou não as marcas de um discurso outro no discurso (= heterogeneidade mostrada), quanto aquelas em que as vozes do exterior só podem ser apreendidas a partir das suas ressonâncias (inter)discursivas (= heterogeneidade constitutiva). No que concerne ao postulado da performatividade, trata-se de uma concepção global da linguagem enquanto função última de todo e qualquer ato de enunciação, no sentido de este corresponder sempre a um instrumento de ação do homem sobre o mundo e sobre o próprio homem. Cumpre ressalvar, no entanto, que, na presente tese, a apreensão da performatividade inerente aos nossos atos de linguagem dialoga não só com o princípio austiniano do dizer é fazer, mas também com a teoria interacionista (Van Dijk, 2000) da fórmula dizer é fazer fazer. No que concerne ao corpus selecionado como fonte de ilustração dos princípios mencionados, este se constitui dos romances Esaú e Jacó (1904) e Memorial de Aires (1908), de Machado de Assis / The aim of this work consists in the proposal of conceiving performativity and heterogeneity as general and inseparable principles of the linguistic activities of human beings. This inseparability permeates, in the enunciation plan, any linguistic-discursive manifestation. With regard to the performativity principle (< performative utterance), the present work is based on John Langshaw Austins studies (1962), and the heterogeneity principle relies on Jacqueline Authier-Reveuzs works (1982). Regarding the notion of heterogeneity, this includes both the linguistic expressions that explicitly admit, or not, the marks of a discourse other in the discourse (= shown heterogeneity), as those in which the exterior voices can only be seized from their resonances (inter)discursive (= constitutive heterogeneity). In relation to the principle of performativity, it is a global concept of language as a function of any act of enunciation, as this always constitutes an instrument of the human action on the world and on humanity. However, in the present thesis, the conceiving of performativity inherent in acts of language dialogues not only with Austins principle of to say is to do, but also with the formulas interactionist theory (Van Dijk, 2000) to say is to do doing. With regard to the corpus selected as a source of illustration of the principles mentioned, the present work includes the novels Esaú e Jacó (1904) and Memorial de Aires (1908), by Machado de Assis

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Devido à crise de água na área, é necessário desenvolver estudos que descrevem as condições ambientais e possíveis interferências. Neste sentido, a comunidade de zooplâncton pode ser usada como importante ferramenta de biomonitoramento. Além disso, o zooplâncton é considerado um componente importante do fluxo de energia no ecossistema. Portanto, este estudo teve como objetivo caracterizar a comunidade zooplanctônica em cinco reservatórios do Sistema Cantareira (Jaguari, Jacareí cachoeira Atibainha e Paiva Castro) e relacionou os dados biológicos com as variáveis limnológicas, a fim de diagnosticar as mudanças nas condições ambientais. As amostras foram coletadas durante a estação seca (maio e junho) e chuvosa (novembro e dezembro) de 2013 em 19 pontos de amostragem. A temperatura, condutividade eléctrica, pH e o oxigênio dissolvido foram medidos in situ com sonda multi-parâmetrica. Nutrientes, material em suspensão e os pigmentos foram determinados no laboratório. Amostras do zooplâncton foram coletadas na zona fótica através de arrasto vertical com rede de 68 µm. Os resultados mostraram eutrofização no reservatório Jaguari e algumas variáveis físico-químicas não atenderam o limite estabelecido por lei. Embora o Sistema Cantareira possa ser classificado como multi-sistema, um padrão semelhante à de cascata de reservatórios foi observado. Em relação ao zooplâncton, o grupo dos rotíferos demonstrou maior riqueza de espécies, porém pouco representativo em biomassa. Ciclopóides foram mais abundantes na estação seca, enquanto os Cladocera superaram os outros grupos no período de chuva. Uma tendência positiva para a densidade de Cyclopoida foi evidenciada. A ocorrência de um rotífero invasor Kellicotia Bostoniensis e da alga exótica Ceratium furcoides (Levander) Langhans 1925 foram registrados. Juvenis de copépodes e Bosmina freyi foram mais abundantes na pesquisa realizada. Crustáceos Calanoida apresentaram os maiores valores de biomassa em relação aos outros grupos. Com base nas análises, a heterogeneidade espacial e temporal foi evidenciada. A maioria dos pontos de amostragem demonstraram impactos moderados e com qualidade da água variando de regular a ruim. Neste sentido, características como o tempo de residência da água e morfometria do reservatório, estado trófico e as interações ecológicas são os principais fatores que podem implicar em alterações na composição do zooplâncton. / The Cantareira System comprises a series of five dams located in distinct watershed, mainly responsible for water supply in the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo state. Due to water crisis in the area, its necessary to develop studies that describe environmental conditions and possible interference. In this sense, the zooplankton community is being used such as biomonitoring tool. However, the zooplankton is considered an important component of the energy flow in ecosystem. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the zooplankton community in five reservoirs of the Cantareira System (Jaguari, Jacarei waterfall Atibainha and Paiva Castro) and associate biological data with the limnological variables in order to diagnose changes in environmental conditions. Samples were collected during the dry (May and June) and rainy season (November and December) of 2013 in 19 sampling points. Temperature, electrical conductivity, pH and dissolved oxygen were measured in situ with multi-parameter probe. Nutrients, suspended matter and the pigments were determined in the laboratory. Zooplankton samples were collected in the photic zone through vertical hauling with 68 µm net. Results showed eutrophication in Jaguari reservoir and some physico-chemical variables not agreement the limit established by law. Although the Cantareira System classified as multi-system, a pattern similar to the cascade of reservoirs was observed. Regarding the zooplankton, the rotifer group demonstrate higher species richness, however scarcely representative in biomass. Cyclopoids were more abundant in the dry season, while the Cladocera exceeded the other groups during the rainy. An positive trend for Cyclopoida density and trophic status were associated. The occurrence of invasive rotifer Kellicotia Bostoniensis and exotic algae Ceratium furcoides (Levander) Langhans 1925 were registred. Juveniles of copepods and Bosmina freyi were more abundant in the survey conducted. Crustaceans Calanoida showed the highest biomass values than the other groups. Based on the analysis, the spatial and temporal distribution were demonstrated. Most sampling points demonstrate moderate impact and water quality ranging from regular and poor. In this case, features such as water residence time and the morphometry, trophic status, ecological interactions are the main factors that could imply in changes in zooplankton composition. / FAPESP: 2014/04471-0