Long-term variations in fish community structure under multiple stressors in a semi-closed marine ecosystem in the South China Sea

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Zhang, Kui

作者： Zhang, Kui;Xu, Youwei;Jiang, Yane;Fan, Jiangtao;Xu, Shannan;Chen, Zuozhi;Zhang, Kui;Xu, Youwei;Jiang, Yane;Fan, Jiangtao;Xu, Shannan;Chen, Zuozhi;Zhang, Kui;Chen, Zuozhi;Guo, Jianzhong

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关键词： Daya bay; Coastal marine ecosystems; Anthropogenic disturbances; Dominant fish species; Shrinking of body size; Abundance-biomass comparison curves

期刊名称：SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT （ 影响因子：7.963； 五年影响因子：7.842 ）

ISSN： 0048-9697

年卷期： 2020 年 745 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Daya Bay is an ecologically and economically crucial semi-closed bay along the southern coast of China. It is proven to be a stressed ecosystem and therefore obviously vulnerable to further extrinsic disturbance. This study used fish data from bottom-trawl surveys, conducted from 1985 to 2018, to analyze variations in the fish community structure over the past 30 years. The results showed that warm-water fish species were overwhelmingly dominant during all years, suggesting the bay's tropical to subtropical characteristic. By 2015, the number of fish species had decreased by 29.44% of that caught in 1987, moreover, values of the Shannon-Wiener diversity index and the Margalef richness index were lower in 2015 compared to 2004. There were evident shifts in the fish community composition from pelagic to demersal species, as suggested by the dominant species found in springtime, the dominant families, and percentages denoting the numbers of species in the main orders. Average fish body weight in landings declined from 13.4 g to 7.58 g, the body sizes of four typical commercial fish species decreased by varying degrees over the last 30 years. Abundance-biomass comparison curves suggested that the Daya Bay fish community was more stressed in 2015 than in 2004 during all seasons, except winter. In general, the fish community structure in Daya Bay is consequently in an unsteady state. Multiple anthropogenic disturbances, such as fishing (including overfishing and changes in the main fishing gears), the destruction of natural habitats, pollutants, and anthropogenically induced temperature changes, are likely to have caused obvious shifts in the bay's fish community structure. Therefore, we emphasize the need for integrating management of multiple anthropogenic stressors to achieve ecosystem-based management. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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