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Riparian land use and in-channel stressors drive fish community structure in the Yangtze River

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Abstract

Context

Untangling relationships between landscape patterns shaped by human stressors and related response of fish communities is important for identifying biodiversity patterns and conservation targets, yet in large rivers this knowledge is extremely limited.

Objectives

Our study focuses on how human stressors within a riparian landscape zone, including both riparian land use and in-channel stressors, explained the fish community structure in a large river.

Methods

We studied fish community patterns along the upstream-downstream gradient of the Yangtze River, China. The curve estimation was used to test correlations between fish metrics and the distance from the estuary. We linked human stressors to fish metrics by multivariate generalized linear models.

Results

We collected a total of 63 freshwater fish species from 6,147 specimens. Limnophilic species had the highest richness, represented by 30 specie. The predominant riparian land uses in the studied reaches were cropland (65.3% ± 13.1%) and urban land (19.7% ± 13.6%). There were strong negative correlations between riparian land use (e.g., urban land) and in-channel stressors (e.g., shoreline modification, navigation, and fishing pressure) and fish assemblages, especially limnophilic fish abundance, biomass, and richness.

Conclusions

These results demonstrate influences of both riparian land use and in-channel stressors on fish communities, and highlight the use of landscape descriptors as a valuable approach to assess linkages between human pressures and fish diversity in large river systems. Management recommendations include: establishing or rehabilitating riparian buffers, improving commercial navigation management, implementing shoreline protection measures, and reinforcing fishing laws and regulations.

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After publication, all data related to this manuscript will be available on-line at the Data Center of Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: www.ihb.ac.cn.

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the National Key R & D Program of China (2019YFD0901203), Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y62302, Y45Z04, and ZDRW-ZS-2017-3-2), China Three Gorges Corporation (201903144), and WWF (10002550 and 10003581). Wei Xin and many students helped in the laboratory.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, China

    Fangyuan Xiong, Ying Lu, Han Liu, Xiao Qu, Wentong Xia, Chuanbo Guo & Yushun Chen

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China

    Fangyuan Xiong, Han Liu, Xiao Qu, Wentong Xia & Yushun Chen

  3. School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Julian D. Olden

  4. Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia

    Julian D. Olden

  5. Research Center for Yangtze River Ecological and Environmental Engineering, China Three Gorges Corporation, 100038, Beijing, China

    Fangyuan Xiong & Xinghua Wu

  6. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48823, USA

    Dana M. Infante

  7. International Joint Commission, Detroit, MI, 48232, USA

    Lizhu Wang

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FX, JDO, DMI, LW, and YC designed the study. FX, YL, HL, XQ, WX, CG, XW, and YC collected the data. FX analyzed the data and wrote the first draft. FX, JDO, DMI, LW, and YC revised the manuscript. All authors approved the manuscript for submission.

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Xiong, F., Olden, J.D., Lu, Y. et al. Riparian land use and in-channel stressors drive fish community structure in the Yangtze River. Landscape Ecol 36, 3079–3095 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01278-8

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