Foubert Aline, Lecomte Frédéric, Legendre Pierre et Cusson Mathieu. (2018). Spatial organisation of fish communities in the St. Lawrence River: a test for longitudinal gradients and spatial heterogeneities in a large river system. Hydrobiologia, 809, (1), p. 155-173.
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Résumé
Typified by heterogeneous habitats, large rivers host diversified communities throughout their course. As the spatial organisation of fish communities within these ecosystems remains little studied, longitudinal gradients and spatial heterogeneities of fish diversity were analysed in the large temperate St. Lawrence River, Canada. We used two distinct datasets obtained from either seine nets or gillnets from governmental standardised fish surveys (1995–2012) consisting of a total of 299,662 individuals from 76 fish species captured in 1,051 sites. Results from diversity indices and multivariate analysis revealed a gradual downstream increase in taxonomic diversity, and a gradual change of the community structure along the river. In addition, we observed different fish communities within fluvial lakes and corridors and found significant differences in fish community structure between opposite shores. The fish communities described along the river using seine nets are spatially more heterogeneous than when described using gillnets. This discrepancy is likely resulting both from the more mobile species targeted by gillnets and sampling sites located farther from the shallower shoreline habitat targeted by seine nets. The organisation of fish communities stresses the need to implement science-based policies and actions to preserve biodiversity and restore communities distributed over large heterogeneous ecosystems.
Type de document: | Article publié dans une revue avec comité d'évaluation |
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ISSN: | 0018-8158 |
Volume: | 809 |
Numéro: | 1 |
Pages: | p. 155-173 |
Version évaluée par les pairs: | Oui |
Date: | 2018 |
Identifiant unique: | 10.1007/s10750-017-3457-z |
Sujets: | Sciences naturelles et génie > Sciences appliquées > Océanographie Sciences naturelles et génie > Sciences naturelles > Biologie et autres sciences connexes |
Département, module, service et unité de recherche: | Départements et modules > Département des sciences fondamentales |
Mots-clés: | fish diversity, discontinuities, multiscale, riverscape, seine nets, gillnets |
Informations complémentaires: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [insert journal title]. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3457-z |
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Dernière modification: | 02 juin 2020 20:29 |
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