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- Freshwater gastropods are imperilled globally and are among North America's most vulnerable major animal groups. Habitat loss, invasive species, and inadequate information about species distributions and assemblages all impair efforts to conserve freshwater gastropods. Conservation efforts are also impaired by difficulty obtaining and using distributional data for snails and other inconspicuous organisms, which are required to assess habitat associations.
- A gastropod‐specific sampling protocol was developed and used to survey 110 sites from 24 sub‐basins in two major river basins of the Intermountain West, USA. Habitat associations of individual taxa and groups of taxa that co‐occurred together more frequently than expected by chance were also examined.
- Using the gastropod‐specific sampling protocol, snails were found at most sites, even in regions where general macroinvertebrate sampling did not detect snails. Thus, these results show that general macroinvertebrate surveys do not accurately reflect the diversity of freshwater gastropods. Although snails of the same family are typically expected to live in the same habitats, this study found that in most cases, within a gastropod family, taxa exhibited unique habitat associations because they co‐occurred more frequently with taxa from different gastropod families. Five genera or sub‐genera were associated with specific mesohabitat or substrate types while two groups of co‐occurring taxa were associated with specific land classes or landform types.
- For diverse, inconspicuous taxa such as freshwater gastropods, qualitative, class‐specific sampling methods, and analyses of habitat associations based on co‐occurring taxa, rather than relatedness, should facilitate conservation efforts.
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Andrea Pulfrich Colleen A. Parkins George M. Branch Rodrigo H. Bustamante Claudio R. Velsquez 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2003,13(3):257-278
- 1. Extensive diamond mining occurs on land and in the sea on the west coasts of South Africa and Namibia, raising fears that diamond‐mining activities may impact commercial rock‐lobster fisheries and benthic communities. To explore this possibility, the effects of the diamond‐mining fines‐discharge on intertidal and subtidal rocky‐shore communities and on the population structure of the rock lobster Jasus lalandii were assessed at Elizabeth Bay.
- 2. Sampling over six years at sites covering a range of wave exposures compared impacted sites with comparable reference sites never exposed to the fines. Percentage cover and densities of benthic organisms were recorded on both intertidal and subtidal reefs. Rock‐lobster abundance was estimated from counts and catch‐per‐unit‐effort, and their length frequencies and sex ratios compared in impacted and reference areas.
- 3. The deposition of fines had no effect at wave‐exposed sites, but did impact intertidal and subtidal communities at sheltered localities where fines accumulated because wave action was insufficient to disperse them. Reductions of grazers, proliferation of algae and increased dominance by filter‐feeders were recorded at the impacted sites and persisted throughout the monitoring programme. Differences in community structure associated with different levels of wave exposure were, however, greater than those produced by depositing fines. The detected effects of fines‐deposits on the benthos were local and likely to be reversible after cessation of mining.
- 4. The fines‐deposit had no detectable effects on the sex‐ratio, size or abundance of rock lobsters, indicating that there is no conflict between the deposition of fines and the fishery for rock lobsters, although substantial inter‐site variability makes it difficult to regard the results as definitive.
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- 1. Current selection of marine protected areas in South Africa is based on objective criteria including biogeographic representation and habitat heterogeneity. This paper specifically examines rocky shores on the west coast of South Africa to determine whether they are divisible into discrete ‘habitats’ that need independent conservation.
- 2. Seventeen rocky shores spanning the full spectrum of wave exposure were compared in terms of maximum wave forces, biomass, species richness and diversity among zones and sites. Three biotic assemblages were identified, characterizing sheltered, semi‐exposed to exposed, and very exposed habitats. Differences among these were clear‐cut low on the shore but disappeared at the top of the shore where wave action was attenuated and desiccation uniformly intense.
- 3. The recognition of three discrete biologically‐defined habitats means that rocky shores cannot be regarded as a uniform habitat for conservation purposes. All three components need protection if the full spectrum of rocky‐shore communities is to be conserved.
- 4. It is argued that this approach allows habitats to be defined in an objective manner, and that once this has been done, habitat heterogeneity constitutes a better measure of conservation value of an area than a ‘hotspot’ approach based on species richness and endemism.
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Juan Carlos Pérez‐Quintero 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2007,17(5):485-501
- 1. A study on the distribution pattern and conservation of freshwater molluscs of the south Guadiana River (SW Iberian Peninsula) was carried out between the Alqueva dam and the Atlantic Ocean.
- 2. The knowledge of the distribution and abundance of molluscs before the closure of the Alqueva dam is an important tool for evaluating the potential reduction in diversity and the changes in species conservation status that may occur later.
- 3. Twenty‐three species (15 gastropods and 8 bivalves) were found in the study area. The presence of Unio crassus and Potomida littoralis indicates the importance of this basin for the conservation of endangered mussels (Unionidae) in the south Iberian Peninsula.
- 4. Drainage area above the sampling site explained almost 58% of the variation in species richness. Larger drainage areas had a higher number of species, including those endemic to the basin.
- 5. Patterns of habitat use were examined to identify species preferences with respect to the erosional‐depositional gradient. Islamia minuta, Pisidium casertanum and Pisidium personatum find their optimum habitat in headwaters, whereas Theodoxus fluviatilis, Mercuria emiliana, Radix auricularia and all unionid species inhabit large and stable habitats downstream without marine influence.
- 6. Populations of invasive Corbicula fluminea were found in the Guadiana River basin, both in rivers with large drainage areas and in brackish waters near the mouths of rivers.
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- 1. Little has been done to assess the potential impact of habitat modification by bottom fishing gear on the feeding habits of demersal fishes. An analysis is presented of the diet of blue cod in Foveaux Strait, southern New Zealand, based on the gut content of fish taken in winter 1999 from two sites where each site consisted of both undisturbed biogenic reefs and reefs modified by oyster dredging.
- 2. Of the 420 guts collected, 13% were empty. The overall mean wet weight of gut content was <4 g. No significant habitat or site effects were detected for the proportion of empty guts or the amount of food consumed.
- 3. A pattern was detected that blue cod on dredged habitats generally fed on more crustaceans than those on undistributed habitats. Blue cod from undisturbed habitat also displayed a more diverse diet than those taken from dredged habitat. These results suggest that long‐term disturbance of seabed habitat by the oyster fishery in Foveaux Strait has caused changes to the diet of blue cod. The findings also suggest that actions should be taken to protect the biogenic reefs from further damage if the blue cod fishery and related resources are to be effectively managed.
- 4. Changes in prey diversity with increasing fish size were also found, with prey diversity (Shannon–Wiener index) increasing from 0.83 to 1.35 over a range of fish size from <25 cm to larger than 34 cm. A total of 52 prey taxa were identified in the diet of blue cod. Crustaceans were the main component, followed by mollusca and polychaeta. Fish, echinodermata and ‘other’ were less important in the diet.
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Elizabeth H. M. Tyler Andrea manica Narriman Jiddawi Martin R. Speight 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2011,21(3):231-238
- 1. Completely banning fishing from coral reefs is now accepted to have significant benefits for marine biodiversity and in many cases, fisheries. However, the benefits of regulating fishing on coral reefs, by restricting the methods used, or the total amount of fishing, are less well understood, even though such regulations are much more likely to be supported by fishermen.
- 2. This study assesses whether banning illegal, destructive fishing methods and reducing the numbers of fishermen visiting from outside an area benefits a coral reef fishery, despite unregulated fishing by local fishermen using non‐destructive methods.
- 3. The abundance, biomass, mean length, and species richness of nine commercially important fish families are compared across ten independent patch reefs inside and outside the 470 km2 Menai Bay Conservation Area in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
- 4. Even after taking into account the effect of differences in habitat and the distance between reefs, 61% (±19.7%) more fish species were found in regulated than unregulated reefs. Fish abundance, biomass, and length were not affected, suggesting that banning destructive fishing may improve biodiversity, but that further regulations may be required to improve fish stocks.Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Fine‐scale acoustic telemetry reveals unexpected lake trout,Salvelinus namaycush,spawning habitats in northern Lake Huron,North America 
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下载免费PDF全文 Thomas R. Binder Steven A. Farha Henry T. Thompson Christopher M. Holbrook Roger A. Bergstedt Stephen C. Riley Charles R. Bronte Ji He Charles C. Krueger 《Ecology of Freshwater Fish》2018,27(2):594-605
Previous studies of lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, spawning habitat in the Laurentian Great Lakes have used time‐ and labour‐intensive survey methods and have focused on areas with historic observations of spawning aggregations and on habitats prejudged by researchers to be suitable for spawning. As an alternative, we used fine‐scale acoustic telemetry to locate, describe and compare lake trout spawning habitats. Adult lake trout were implanted with acoustic transmitters and tracked during five consecutive spawning seasons in a 19–27 km2 region of the Drummond Island Refuge, Lake Huron, using the VEMCO Positioning System. Acoustic telemetry revealed discrete areas of aggregation on at least five reefs in the study area, subsequently confirmed by divers to contain deposited eggs. Notably, several identified spawning sites would likely not have been discovered using traditional methods because either they were too small and obscure to stand out on a bathymetric map or because they did not conform to the conceptual model of spawning habitat held by many biologists. Our most unique observation was egg deposition in gravel and rubble substrates located at the base of and beneath overhanging edges of large boulders. Spawning sites typically comprised <10% of the reef area and were used consistently over the 5‐year study. Evaluation of habitat selection from the perspective of fish behaviour through use of acoustic transmitters offers potential to expand current conceptual models of critical spawning habitat. 相似文献
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Distribution,habitat associations and conservation implications of Sri Lankan freshwater terrapins outside the protected area network 下载免费PDF全文
下载免费PDF全文 Suranjan Karunarathna A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe Sujan Henkanaththegedara Thilina Surasinghe Majintha Madawala Dinesh Gabadage Madhava Botejue 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2017,27(6):1301-1312
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Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status,threats and management 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1 下载免费PDF全文
下载免费PDF全文 Angela H. Arthington Nicholas K. Dulvy William Gladstone Ian J. Winfield 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2016,26(5):838-857
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