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Responses of fish assemblage structure to large-scale weir construction in riverine ecosystems
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Jo, H, Jeppesen, E, Ventura, M, Buchaca, T, Gimb, J-S, Yoon, J-D, Kim, D-H & Joob, G-J 2019, ' Responses of fish assemblage structure to large-scale weir construction in riverine ecosystems ', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 657, pp. 1334-1342 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.446
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Worldwide, increasing amounts of dams and weirs have been established in rivers in recent decades, often with drastic effects on their ecosystems. Between late 2009 and 2011, 16 large-scale dams were built in the main channels of the four largest rivers in South Korea, eight of these along the main channel of Nakdong River (300 km, 520 km in total). We studied the effect of these constructions on the fish community in the riparian zone based on intensive fish field surveys conducted in the littoral zone during 2007–2017, analysis of fishermen's catch data and molecular analysis of the diet of the keystone species, largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Our results, based on RDA and GLM analyses, showed that environmental characteristics and fish species composition changed significantly with dam construction. Total fish abundance and biomass decreased after the start of the weir construction and fish richness decreased with time. The abundance and biomass of exotic fish decreased during construction but recovered afterwards, leading to higher proportions of exotics. Dominance and Shannon indices did not change significantly from before to after construction, while the Evenness index showed a significant decreasing trend. A comparison of the diet composition of largemouth bass showed decreasing genetic variation after construction. The changes in Functional Feeding Group (FFG) of the benthic communities at the study sites did not coincide with FFG changes in the prey items of largemouth bass, indicating a transition in feeding mode from before to after construction. In conclusion, the endemic and native fish species were most sensitive and showed lower resilience to disturbance by the large-scale dam construction than the translocated and exotic species, and the lake-like ecosystems after construction markedly improved the competitive capacity of these exotic fish over the native and endemic species in the riparian zone of the river.
- Subjects :
- Riparian zone
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Population Dynamics
DIVERSITY
Introduced species
Functional feeding group
010501 environmental sciences
IMPOUNDMENT IMPACT
01 natural sciences
EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS
Littoral zone
HABITAT
Waste Management and Disposal
Principal Component Analysis
geography.geographical_feature_category
Fishes
Biodiversity
Pollution
COMMUNITY
Fish species composition
Benthic zone
Environmental Engineering
CONSERVATION
Micropterus
RDA analysis
Biology
ECOLOGY
Rivers
Republic of Korea
Animals
DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic
Environmental Chemistry
Dominance (ecology)
BASS
Keystone species
Ecosystem
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Population Density
geography
Resilience
Genetic Variation
Feeding Behavior
GLM analysis
biology.organism_classification
Diet
Fishery
SIZE
RESERVOIR
Bass
Genetic variability
Species richness
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00489697
- Volume :
- 657
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science of The Total Environment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ff109851a24483dd76c4936c952dd440