About the Authors

Jean-Michel Mortillaro

mortillaro@mnhn.fr

Affiliation UMR-CNRS-IRD-UPMC 7208, BOREA, département milieux et peuplements aquatiques, MNHN, CP 53, Paris, France

François Rigal

Affiliations UMR-CNRS-IRD-UPMC 7208, BOREA, département milieux et peuplements aquatiques, MNHN, CP 53, Paris, France, Universidade dos Açores, Azorean biodiversity group, rua Capitão João d'Ávila, São Pedro, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Portugal

Hervé Rybarczyk

Affiliation UMR-CNRS-IRD-UPMC 7208, BOREA, département milieux et peuplements aquatiques, MNHN, CP 53, Paris, France

Marcelo Bernardes

Affiliation Universidade federal Fluminense, instituto de química, programa de geoquímica, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Gwenaël Abril

Affiliations UMR-CNRS 5805, EPOC, université Bordeaux 1, Talence, France, IRD, GET, laboratorio de potamologia Amazônica, UFAM, avenida general rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

Tarik Meziane

Affiliation UMR-CNRS-IRD-UPMC 7208, BOREA, département milieux et peuplements aquatiques, MNHN, CP 53, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM TM GA MB. Analyzed the data: JMM FR HR. Wrote the paper: JMM FR HR TM.