Longitudinal Zonation of Pacific Northwest (U.S.A.) Fish Assemblages and the Species-Discharge Relationship

McGarvey, Daniel J.; Hughes, Robert M.

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“…in Oklahoma, and Angermeier and Schlosser (1989) found habitat size generally correlated with species richness for pools and riffles of small streams in Minnesota, Illinois, and Panamathe latter likely a consequence of increasing habitat heterogeneity and habitat volume (McGarvey and Hughesm, 2008).…”

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Determining the relative importance of catchment- and site-scale factors in structuring fish assemblages in small coastal streams

Mitsuo

2017

Knowl. Manag. Aquat. Ecosyst.

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-Coastal streams provide important habitat for many diadromous fish species, which migrate between freshwater and the sea during their life cycle. However, coastal systems are poorly studied in comparison to large, continental river systems. Furthermore, the relative importance of catchment-and sitescale factors in structuring lotic fish communities is largely unknown. In this study, I addressed these issues by surveying the fish fauna of small coastal streams on Sado Island (northwest Japan) and determining the relative importance of catchment-and site-scale factors to the structure of freshwater fish assemblages. In total, 14 freshwater fish species were collected from the 19 streams. All but one of the fish species collected were diadromous and 9 of the species (64%) were amphidromous, primarily represented by the goby group including the genera Rhinogobius and Gymnogobius. Variance partitioning analyses showed that catchmentscale factors (namely, stream discharge) were better predictors of both fish species richness and composition than site scale and spatial factors. These results indicate that discharge, which is directly linked to habitat stability, can have a major role in structuring coastal fish assemblages, likely because small coastal streams experience extreme discharge fluctuations associated with regional weather conditions. Keywords: coastal streams / catchment scale / diadromous fishes / assemblage structure Résumé -Détermination de l'importance relative des facteurs à l'échelle du captage et du site dans la structuration des assemblages de poissons dans les petits cours d'eau côtiers. Les cours d'eau côtiers fournissent un habitat important à de nombreuses espèces de poissons diadromes qui migrent entre l'eau douce et la mer pendant leur cycle de vie. Cependant, les systèmes côtiers sont mal étudiés par rapport aux grands systèmes fluviaux continentaux. De plus, l'importance relative des facteurs à l'échelle du captage et du site dans la structuration des communautés de poissons lotiques est largement inconnue. Dans cette étude, ces questions sont abordées en examinant la faune halieutique des petits cours d'eau côtiers de l'île de Sado (nord-ouest du Japon) et en déterminant l'importance relative des facteurs à l'échelle du captage et du site pour la structure des assemblages de poissons d'eau douce. Au total, 14 espèces de poissons d'eau douce ont été prélevées dans les 19 cours d'eau. Toutes les espèces de poissons, à l'exception d'une seule, étaient diadromes et neuf (64 %) étaient amphidromes, principalement représentées par le groupe des gobies, y compris les genres Rhinogobius et Gymnogobius. Les analyses de partitionnement des variances ont montré que les facteurs à l'échelle du captage (à savoir le débit des cours d'eau) étaient de meilleurs prédicteurs de la richesse et de la composition des espèces de poissons que l'échelle du site et les facteurs spatiaux. Ces résultats indiquent que le débit, qui est directement lié à la stabilité de l'habitat, peut jouer un rôle important...

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Section: Relative Importance Of the Catchment And Site Scale Factorsmentioning

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Determining the relative importance of catchment- and site-scale factors in structuring fish assemblages in small coastal streams

Mitsuo

2017

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“…Pool development and depth are among the most significant habitat attributes affecting stream fishes (Schlosser, 1982;Platts et al, 1983). Pools in general support more and larger fish than runs or riffles (Gillette et al, 2005;Sharma and Jackson, 2007;McGarvey and Hughes, 2008), but a pool's proxymity to runs or riffles determines habitat suitability for certain stream fishes (Quist et al, 2006) by contributing to habitat heterogeneity (Lau et al, 2006). Stream systems are complex, and associations between fishes and habitat features vary considerably over spatial and temporal scales (Angermeier, 1987;Closs et al, 2004).…”

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“…Understanding the patterns of fish assemblages in a watershed is dependent on the spatial scale of study; too coarse a sampling design may limit spatial (zonation) analysis (McGarvey and Hughes, 2008). Often, only a fragment of the entire ecosystem is covered (Fausch et al, 2002) making it difficult to locate fishes with specific habitat requirements.…”

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“…In addition, the transport of materials and organisms down the hydraulic highway is highly temporal (Fausch et al, 2002), and spatial variation is also high (Gorman and Karr, 1978). Substantial variation in habitat (for example, depth; Powers et al, 2003) reduces the ability to detect statistical associations with fish species or assemblages (Gerhard et al, 2005;McGarvey and Hughes, 2008).…”

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“…This problem is pronounced in areas of heavy weed growth, such as in-stream, slack water impoundments (for example, Lyndonville Pond, JCW; see Wells, 2009), which may impact foraging efficiency and reduce dissolved oxygen (Brazner and Beals, 1997), especially at night. However, aquatic vegetation provides important shelter and food for many aquatic organisms (Flosi et al, 1998;Van Snik Gray et al, 2005;Lau et al, 2006) and essential habitat for many fishes that require it for at least part of their life cycle (Whitton, 1975;Van Snik Gray et al, 2005;McGarvey and Hughes, 2008). In the typically turbid TCW, aquatic vegetation (usually emergents) had a positive influence on CPUE at three spatial scales (watershed, middle + upper subwatershed, and type 4 pools), likely due to the added cover along stream margins utilized by the fishes sampled.…”

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Longitudinal Zonation of Pacific Northwest (U.S.A.) Fish Assemblages and the Species-Discharge Relationship

Cited by 65 publications

References 52 publications

Determining the relative importance of catchment- and site-scale factors in structuring fish assemblages in small coastal streams

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