Fish Ecology: Habitat Preferences and Diversity

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 1778

Special Issue Editors

National Research Council, Institute of Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in Marine Environment (CNR-IAS), Trapani, Italy
Interests: Ichthyoplankton; larval fish ecology; fisheries oceanography; multivariate statistics; small pelagic fishes; Atlantic bluefin tuna
Département des Sciences de la Vie, Nantes University, CEDEX 1, 44035 Nantes, France
Interests: marine ecology; remote sensing; biodiversity monitoring; marine protected area assessment; fisheries management
Italian National Research Council | CNR · ISMed Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean, Napoli, Italy
Interests: biotechnology; fish species; marine ecology molecular biology; cell biology; ecology biochemistry; gene expression; genetics photography; biodiversity

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As a natural resource fish provide a vast array of ecological and societal services. They provide sustenance and financial security through global fisheries, while also underpinning the functioning of many ecosystems.

Being ubiquitous across all freshwater and marine systems, fish ecology and both taxonomic and functional diversity is highly variable. This variability in ecology across taxonomy and ontogeny is critically important for fisheries and ecosystem function, and current knowledge gaps in this variation hamper sustainable management. This is true for both the fish themselves and the habitats that they rely upon and interact with. As human populations continue to increase, anthropogenic activities that impact fish populations and vital fish habitats will become more frequent and widespread.

Therefore, we invite the publication of papers to fill knowledge gaps which will aid the sustainable management of fish and fish populations. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Marco Torri
Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies
Prof. Dr. Angela Cuttitta
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • functional and taxonomic diversity
  • ecosystem services
  • ecosystem function
  • fisheries management
  • anthropogenic impacts
  • fish population dynamics

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Investigations of Fish Assemblages Using Two Methods in Three Terminal Reservoirs of the East Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, China
by Huiguo Yan, Sibao Chen, Xia Liu, Zhenhao Cheng, Bjorn Victor Schmidt, Wenping He, Fei Cheng and Songguang Xie
Animals 2023, 13(10), 1614; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13101614 - 11 May 2023
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The terminal reservoirs of water transfer projects directly supply water for domestic, agricultural, and industrial applications, and the water quality of these reservoirs produce crucial effects on the achievement of project targets. Typically, fish assemblages are monitored as indicators of reservoir water quality, [...] Read more.
The terminal reservoirs of water transfer projects directly supply water for domestic, agricultural, and industrial applications, and the water quality of these reservoirs produce crucial effects on the achievement of project targets. Typically, fish assemblages are monitored as indicators of reservoir water quality, and can also be regulated for its improvement. In the present study, we compared traditional fish landing (TFL) and environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding methods for monitoring fish assemblages in three terminal reservoirs of the East Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, China. Results of TFL and eDNA showed similar assemblage structures and patterns of diversity and spatial distribution with obvious differences in fish composition across three examined reservoirs. Demersal and small fish were dominant in all reservoirs. In addition, a strong association between water transfer distance and assemblages and distribution of non-native fish was found. Our findings highlight the necessity of the fish assemblage monitoring and managing for water quality and revealed the impact of water diversion distance on the structure of fish assemblages and dispersal of alien species along the water transfer project. Full article
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