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Fish composition in a south-western Atlantic temperate coastal lagoon: spatial–temporal variation and relationships with environmental variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2009

M. González Castro ,
J.M. Díaz de Astarloa ,
M.B. Cousseau ,
D.E. Figueroa ,
S.M. Delpiani ,
D.O. Bruno ,
J.M. Guzzoni ,
G.E. Blasina  and
M.Y. Deli Antoni
M. González Castro*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC)
J.M. Díaz de Astarloa
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)
M.B. Cousseau
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina
D.E. Figueroa
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina
S.M. Delpiani
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina Museo del Mar, Mar del Plata, Argentina
D.O. Bruno
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina
J.M. Guzzoni
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina
G.E. Blasina
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
M.Y. Deli Antoni
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: M. González Castro, Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina email: gocastro@mdp.edu.ar
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Abstract

Mar Chiquita, an irregularly shaped brackish-water coastal lagoon, is located in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina and considered since 1996 by the Coordination Council of the Man and Biosphere Program of UNESCO as a World Reserve of Biosphere. The present paper aims to study both the spatial and temporal variation of fish composition in this coastal lagoon and the influence of some environmental variables on the relative abundance of the main fish species. Monthly sampling surveys over a two-year period in three different areas were conducted, using a beach-seine net and three monofilament-gill nets with different mesh size. Twenty-eight species belonging to four bio-ecological categories were identified, five of them are new records for Mar Chiquita fish community. The correspondence analysis showed strong relationships between high salinity range and the abundance of Brevoortia aurea, Cynoscion guatucupa and Pomatomus saltatrix. Conversely, low salinity range corresponded to high abundance of Mugil platanus and Odontesthes argentinensis. High temperatures were corresponded with abundance of Micropogonias furnieri and Brevoortia aurea. In contrast, high abundance of both Odontesthes argentinensis and Oligosarcus jenynsii were corresponded to low temperatures. Brevoortia aurea, Mugil platanus and Odontesthes argentinensis were the most abundant species, representing more than 80% of the total capture. The group of estuarine-nondependent-marine fish presented the highest species richness. Estuarine-dependent-marine species presented for both juveniles and adults specimens the highest abundance values.

Keywords

fish compositionspecies diversitycoastal lagoonssalinity gradientsenvironmental factorsmultivariate analysisSouth AmericaArgentinaBuenos AiresMar Chiquita
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 89 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 593 - 604
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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