期刊
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
卷 19, 期 3, 页码 775-796出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9734-z
关键词
Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranch communities; Biodiversity; Southwestern Atlantic; Chondrichthyan conservation
资金
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Argentina [2086]
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Germany)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
- Sociedade Brasileira para o Estudo dos Elasmobranquios
- Lenfest Ocean Program
For more than a century, two major zoogeographic provinces have been proposed for the southwestern Atlantic: a warm water Argentinean Province from Rio de Janeiro (23A degrees S, Brazil) to Vald,s Peninsula (42A degrees S, Argentina), and a cold water Magellanic Province from Vald,s Peninsula to Cape Horn. This zoogeographic scheme has been recognized so far using data covering only parts of the whole geographic area. Here, we test the validity of this scheme by analyzing the distribution of sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras, using data from research cruises covering the entire area. We used cluster, similarity and dissimilarity analyses to identify species assemblages, and canonical correspondence analysis to identify the main environmental variables affecting the composition of the assemblages. The distribution of chondrichthyan assemblages strongly supports the current zoogeographic scheme and identifies a previously unknown and distinctive deep water zoogeographic unit off southern Brazil. Both, the Argentinean and Magellanic Provinces had extensive internal structure, with four and three subareas identified in each of them, respectively. These subareas correspond, with slight differences, to previously proposed zoogeographical districts within the Argentinean Province and confirm ecological differences within the Magellanic Province. Species composition had the highest correlation with depth and bottom water temperature. Since the distribution of anthropogenic disturbances in the region is uneven, different assemblages can be subjected to different impacts. Our results provide an objective basis to establish priority areas for the conservation of chondrichthyans in the southwestern Atlantic.
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