A Multivariate Approach to Monitoring Changes in Species Composition of a Demersal Fish Community

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.J. Mueter ◽  
B.L. Norcross
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Demersal Fish ◽  
Multivariate Approach

Changes in species composition of the demersal fish community in nearshore waters of Kodiak Island, Alaska

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 1169-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz J Mueter ◽  
Brenda L Norcross
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Demersal Fish ◽  
Trawl Survey ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Forage Fishes ◽  
Kodiak Island ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
Over Time

We examined the species composition of the demersal fish and shrimp community in seven different areas in the nearshore waters of Kodiak Island based on trawl survey data. A major part of the variability in the data set was attributed to trends over time, indicating a significant change in species composition in the early 1980s. Results agree with work by others and show a shift from a community dominated by shrimp and small forage fishes to one dominated by large piscivorous gadid and flatfish species. The shift occurred rather abruptly in most areas between 1980 and 1982, but the pattern of change differed significantly among areas. Correlations between trends in the two groups of species were weak but were consistent with the hypothesis that the decline in shrimp and forage fishes followed, rather than preceded, the increase in large piscivorous fishes. The results suggest predation as a possible mechanism to explain the observed changes.

Dissolved oxygen and temperature best predict deep-sea fish community structure in the Gulf of California with climate change implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 637 ◽  
pp. 159-180
Author(s):  
ND Gallo ◽  
M Beckwith ◽  
CL Wei ◽  
LA Levin ◽  
L Kuhnz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Demersal Fish ◽  
Fish Community Structure ◽  
Explained Variance

Natural gradient systems can be used to examine the vulnerability of deep-sea communities to climate change. The Gulf of California presents an ideal system for examining relationships between faunal patterns and environmental conditions of deep-sea communities because deep-sea conditions change from warm and oxygen-rich in the north to cold and severely hypoxic in the south. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) remotely operated vehicle (ROV) ‘Doc Ricketts’ was used to conduct seafloor video transects at depths of ~200-1400 m in the northern, central, and southern Gulf. The community composition, density, and diversity of demersal fish assemblages were compared to environmental conditions. We tested the hypothesis that climate-relevant variables (temperature, oxygen, and primary production) have more explanatory power than static variables (latitude, depth, and benthic substrate) in explaining variation in fish community structure. Temperature best explained variance in density, while oxygen best explained variance in diversity and community composition. Both density and diversity declined with decreasing oxygen, but diversity declined at a higher oxygen threshold (~7 µmol kg-1). Remarkably, high-density fish communities were observed living under suboxic conditions (<5 µmol kg-1). Using an Earth systems global climate model forced under an RCP8.5 scenario, we found that by 2081-2100, the entire Gulf of California seafloor is expected to experience a mean temperature increase of 1.08 ± 1.07°C and modest deoxygenation. The projected changes in temperature and oxygen are expected to be accompanied by reduced diversity and related changes in deep-sea demersal fish communities.

scholarly journals Redundancy in metrics describing the composition, structure, and functioning of the North Sea demersal fish community

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon P. R. Greenstreet ◽  
Helen M. Fraser ◽  
Stuart I. Rogers ◽  
Verena M. Trenkel ◽  
Stephen D. Simpson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Demersal Fish ◽  
Community Size ◽  
The North ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Composition Structure ◽  
And Function

Abstract Greenstreet, S. P. R., Fraser, H. M., Rogers, S. I., Trenkel, V. M., Simpson, S. D., and Pinnegar, J. K. 2012. Redundancy in metrics describing the composition, structure, and functioning of the North Sea demersal fish community. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 8–22. Broader ecosystem management objectives for North Sea demersal fish currently focus on restoring community size structure. However, most policy drivers explicitly concentrate on restoring and conserving biodiversity, and it has not yet been established that simply restoring demersal fish size composition will be sufficient to reverse declines in biodiversity and ensure a generally healthy community. If different aspects of community composition, structure, and function vary independently, then to monitor all aspects of community general health will require application of a suite of metrics. This assumes low redundancy among the metrics used in any such suite and implies that addressing biodiversity issues specifically will require explicit management objectives for particular biodiversity metrics. This issue of metric redundancy is addressed, and 15 metrics covering five main attributes of community composition, structure, and function are applied to groundfish survey data. Factor analysis suggested a new interpretation of the metric information and indicated that a minimum suite of seven metrics was necessary to ensure that all changes in the general health of the North Sea demersal fish community were monitored properly. Covariance among size-based and species-diversity metrics was low, implying that restoration of community size structure would not necessarily reverse declines in species diversity.

scholarly journals Demersal fish community on the inner shelf of Ubatuba, southeastern Brazil

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gecely R. A. Rocha ◽  
Carmen L. D. B. Rossi-Wongtschowski
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Coastal Water ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Species Abundance ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Sampling Period ◽  
Demersal Fish ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Otter Trawl ◽  
South Atlantic Central Water

Fluctuations in the distribution and abundance of demersal fishes collected by otter trawl on the continental shelf of Ubatuba were examined over a two-year sampling period, in an area up to 50 m depth. A total of 111 species were collected. Seasonal and annual fluctuations in species abundance were related to differences in the distribution of Coastal Water and South Atlantic Central Water masses. The demersal fish fauna in the area was divided into three ecologically distinct communities: Tropical Sciaenid, Subtropical Sciaenid, and Gerreid-Haemulid. The most important one is the Tropical Sciaenid Community, characterized by Ctenosciaena gracilicirrhus, Paralonchurus brasiliensis, and Cynoscion jamaicensis.

Long-term changes in species composition of demersal fish and epibenthic species in the Jade area (German Wadden Sea/Southern North Sea) since 1972

2016 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 284-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Meyer ◽  
Ingrid Kröncke ◽  
Alexander Bartholomä ◽  
Joachim W. Dippner ◽  
Ulrike Schückel
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Demersal Fish ◽  
Southern North Sea ◽  
Long Term Changes

Seasonal Variation in Guild Structure of the Puget Sound Demersal Fish Community

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 790-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan C. P. Reum ◽  
Timothy E. Essington
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
Demersal Fish ◽  
Guild Structure

scholarly journals An innovative statistical approach to constructing a readily comprehensible food web for a demersal fish community

2013 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 43-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben French ◽  
K. Robert Clarke ◽  
Margaret E. Platell ◽  
Ian C. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Demersal Fish
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