Larval Fish Community in the Northwestern Iberian Upwelling System during the Summer Period
23 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables.-- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License The Galician shelf (northwestern Iberian Peninsula) is a highly dynamic area with an important multi-species fisheries industry that exploits resources from several habitats, ch...
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2021
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/263208 https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans2040040 |
| Summary: | 23 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables.-- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License The Galician shelf (northwestern Iberian Peninsula) is a highly dynamic area with an important multi-species fisheries industry that exploits resources from several habitats, characterized by being not only highly diverse, rich, and productive but also seasonally and interannually variable. Early life stages of different species are distributed throughout the year, with fluctuating abundances and community composition. Likewise, the influence of environmental factors and processes on larval production and survival remains unknown. Sampling was carried out in July 2012, and all the larvae obtained were identified to establish the specific composition of the community in a summer upwelling scenario. The results show no zonation in the species distribution, a consequence of the mixing effects of the upwelling and eddies, with high diversity but low abundance, which render in a slight predominance of a few species. Due to the dependence of planktonic populations on upwelling events, which was not highly pronounced in 2012, we cannot conclude that this was a typical conformation of the Galician summer larval fish community, but it is a first approach to comprehend the community composition This work was funded by the Spanish research project CRAMER (CTM2010-21856-CO3-02), the Galician research project ECOPREGA (10MMA602021PR), and the “Mobility grant (Research, innovation and growth plan 2011-2015, I2C) from the Innovation agency of the Xunta de Galicia. File 20/2014” Peer reviewed |
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