期刊
WATER
卷 13, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w13020130
关键词
transitional waters; non-tidal coastal lagoons typology; fish-based index; anthropogenic pressures
资金
- Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (PRIN) [2009 W2395]
The study compares fish assemblages in three non-tidal Mediterranean coastal lagoons to evaluate the impacts of different management strategies; anthropogenic activities have the greatest influence on water quality and artisanal fisheries play a beneficial role in fish assemblages; lagoon fisheries management relies on maintaining infrastructure that allows exchanges with the adjacent coastal sea.
Transitional waters are among the most productive ecosystems of the world and their biotic communities show high diversity and complex mechanisms of self-regulation that provide valuable ecosystem services and societal goods and benefits. In this work a comparison of the fish assemblages of three non-tidal Mediterranean coastal lagoons is carried out in order to evaluate the impacts of alternative management strategies. The anthropogenic pressures acting on the lagoons were quantified by means of categorical indicators, while the characteristics of the fish assemblages were summarized in multi-metric indices (MMIs). Two MMIs were developed using data collected with a beach seine net and with fyke nets, following an empirical approach that selects, from a pool of 73 metrics, the combination that maximizes the MMI/pressure relationship. The two MMIs include four metrics each, most of which are based on feeding mode functional guilds and habitat use functional guilds, and they are sensitive to anthropogenic pressures. The human activities directly or indirectly affecting water quality are the ones that most influence the fish assemblage, while the presence of artisanal fisheries, a typical and relevant resource use in these lagoons, seems to play a beneficial role. Lagoon fisheries management relies on the maintenance of infrastructures that guarantee the hydraulic functioning of the lagoon, thus ensuring exchanges with the adjacent coastal sea, and therefore indirectly contributing to the habitat quality.
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