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Using standardized fish-specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) to quantify cryptobenthic fish communities

1. Biodiversity inventories and monitoring techniques for marine fishes often overlook small (<5cm), bottom-associated ('cryptobenthic') fishes, and few standardized, comparative assessments of cryptobenthic fish communities exist. We sought to develop a standardized, quantitative survey method for cryptobenthic fishes that permits their sampling across a variety of habitats and conditions. 2. Fish-specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) are designed to sample cryptobenthic fishes using a suite of accessible and affordable materials. To generate a variety of microhabitats, FARMS consist of three layers of stacked PVC pipes in three different sizes, as well as a bottom and top level of loose PVC-pipe fragments in a mesh basket. We deployed FARMS across a variety of habitats, including coral reefs, seagrass beds, oyster reefs, mangroves, and soft-bottom habitats across six locations (Hawai'i, Texas, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Curaçao). 3. From shallow estuaries to coral reefs beyond 100 m depth, FARMS attracted distinct communities of native cryptobenthic fishes with strong site or habitat specificity. Comparing the FARMS to communities sampled with alternative methods (enclosed clove-oil stations on coral reefs in Panama and oyster sampling units on oyster reefs in Texas) suggests that FARMS yield a subset of cryptobenthic species representative of those present on local coral and oyster reefs. While FARMS yield fewer individuals per sample and are restricted to cryptobenthic species, they are efficient sampling devices relative to the sampled area. 4. We demonstrate that FARMS represent a useful tool for standardized collections of cryptobenthic fishes. While natural substrata are bound to yield more mature communities with a larger number of individuals and wider range of specialist species, the potential to deploy and retrieve FARMS in turbid environments, beyond regular SCUBA depth, and where fish collections using anesthetics or ichthyocides are forbidden suggests that they are a valuable complementary technique to survey fishes in aquatic ecosystems. Deploying FARMS in locations and habitats where cryptobenthic fish communities have not been studied in detail may yield many valuable specimens of unknown or poorly known species.

opencc-zeroFeb 2023View details →

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Do highly anthropized hydrological conditions in marshes influence fish communities according to their life‐history strategies?

AbstractAlterations of natural hydrology in aquatic ecosystems are known to strongly impact the community composition of different taxa. Surprisingly, literature on the potential influence of hydrology on fish community composition is still very scarce in agricultural marshes, where canals represent one of the few remaining aquatic habitats. This study is aimed to address this research gap by monitoring fish communities in independent hydrological units differing in hydrology management over a 6 years period. We predicted variable fish responses to the hydrological context according to different life‐history strategies (opportunistic, equilibrium, or periodic species). Periodic and opportunistic species were the most frequently observed. Despite differences in hydrology between canals (but little variation over years), we found that hydrology explained only a very low proportion of variation in the composition of fish communities. In particular, the flooding duration of meadows in early spring did not influence the composition of fish communities, not even the abundance of periodic species expected to rely on such temporary habitats. Instead, fish communities were more influenced by local habitat variables (aquatic vegetation cover, turbidity, tree roots, and refuges under the canal banks). The hydrological management of most hydrological units for agricultural purposes (i.e., severe flood abatement in spring and shallow water depth in canals in summer) was found to be incompatible with conservation goals to promote more diverse fish communities between hydrological units. Therefore, we call for further investigations in similar habitats covering a larger range of hydrological conditions.

opencc-zeroApr 2023View details →

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Dataset for: How eDNA data filtration, sequence coverage, and primer selection influence assessment of fish communities in northern temperate lakes

For nearly 15 years now, environmental DNA has demonstrated its effectiveness in monitoring biodiversity. Methodological and technical improvements have significantly enhanced the field. However, the effect of factors such as sequence coverage, bioinformatic filtration and primer choice have been less explored or need to be optimized according to specific survey objectives and study site characteristics. We evaluated these factors to help optimize monitoring fish biodiversity in North American temperate lakes. We sampled water for fish community eDNA analysis in 12 lakes from southwestern Québec, Canada. The lakes were selected to encompass a wide range of surface areas and species richness. We sampled water from a total of 520 sites (25 to 50 per lake) and analyzed three mitochondrial DNA regions (12S rRNA; 16S rRNA; and cytb) using NovaSeq sequencing. Our results, based on rarefied count matrices (from a sequencing depth of 100,000 to a minimum depth of 1,000 reads per sample), showed that keeping only species in each sample if they represented at least one thousandth (species minimum read proportion threshold = 0.001) of the sample's reads was adequate to remove false positives and had a limited negative impact on true positives with low read counts. The sequencing depth was found to have a negligible impact on the accuracy of fish community assessment in a given lake. With the same sequencing depth and a complete local reference database for each primer set, a single primer set produced similar species richness medians than the combination of two or three primer sets. Overall, 12S and 16S detected more species and provided more consistent community profiles than cytb. Based on our observations, we suggest using the 12S MiFish-U primer set and applying a minimum proportion of 0.001 reads per species and site to monitor north-temperate lentic freshwater fish communities.

opencc-zeroJun 2023View details →

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Data from: Direct and indirect effects of a fishing ban on lacustrine fish community do not result in a full recovery

<ol> <li>Protected areas are increasingly being promoted as an important means of protecting freshwater biological diversity and ecological processes. A robust assessment of ecological changes in protected areas is fundamental to optimize conservation policies and adaptive management. China's efforts to establish aquatic reserves have attracted worldwide attention, especially the "10-year fishing ban" implemented in the Yangtze River basin.</li> <li>We focused on Liangzi Lake, a freshwater protected area in the Yangtze River basin, to understand the effect of a fishing ban occurring after a short period of overfishing. In this aim, the time series of fish community taxonomic and functional structure encompassing the overfishing period and a post-ban period have been analyzed. Fish community metrics with direct, indirect, and no responses to fishing bans were identified.</li> <li>The results indicate that in the early period of the fishing ban, the trophic level and body size structure of the fish community were in the way of recovery. However, species that prefer benthic habitats did not recover after fishing-induced habitat degradation. Functional traits were more sensitive than taxonomic indices and revealed subtle community changes, such as the recovery of some ecological functions, despite a non-recovering species richness.</li> <li> Synthesis and applications. This study provides a rare case of a freshwater protected area in which the effects of conservation measures are studied with a temporal survey. The effectiveness of the functional trait approach in the application of protected area assessment was demonstrated by revealing the recovery of trophic level and body size structure of fish communities after the implementation of the fishing ban and the inadequacy of habitat restoration efforts. We suggest that in freshwater protected areas, insistence on a fishing ban is necessary but not sufficient for full biodiversity recovery, and other measures are needed, such as habitat restoration and species-focused stocking.</li> </ol>

opencc-zeroJul 2023View details →

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Cross-regional drivers of demersal fish community biomass and catch

Video presentation for the Ocean Sciences Meeting.

opencc-by-4.0Feb 2022View details →

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