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ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES
卷 105, 期 9, 页码 1203-1217出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-022-01340-7
关键词
Estuaries; Mixed effect modelling; Upstream migration; GLMM
资金
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE)
This study examined the impact of environmental variables on the abundance of glass eels in transitional waters. The results indicate that water temperature and moon phase are the most important factors.
The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) has undergone an unprecedented population decline since the 1980s, with current recruitment levels fluctuating from 3 to 15% of historical levels for the last 20 years. Monitoring of glass eels and elvers as 0 + recruitment is an essential step in helping to understand the trend in recruitment and to better quantify the current recruitment time series. Two locations within the Shannon estuary on the west coast of Ireland were monitored for glass eel recruitment from January to April in 2017 and 2018. This study used a generalised linear mixed model to examine a range of environmental variables impacting on glass eel abundance in transitional waters. Results found that water temperature and moon phase were the most important variables. Tidal height and cloud cover also influenced the abundance of glass eels but to a lesser extent. This study found that focussing survey efforts on nights around the full moon when water temperatures exceed 5celcius will allow a catch which is representative of the population in an estuary. Glass eel monitoring needs a long-term sampling plan in order to account for annual fluctuations apparent in glass eel recruitment.
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