Status and historical changes in the fish community in Erhai Lake

Jianfeng Tang; Shaowen Ye; Wei Li; Jiashou Liu; Tanglin Zhang; Zhiqiang Guo; Fengyue Zhu; Zhongjie Li

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Status and historical changes in the fish community in Erhai Lake

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- Status and historical changes in the fish community in Erhai Lake
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 31, Issue 4, Pages: 712-723(2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  1. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  3. UPS UMRB Université de Toulouse,5174 ED
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-013-2324-7
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- Online First：10 July 2013，
  
  Published：2013
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Tang, J., Ye, S., Li, W. et al. Status and historical changes in the fish community in Erhai Lake., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 31, 712–723 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-013-2324-7
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Tang, J., Ye, S., Li, W. et al. Status and historical changes in the fish community in Erhai Lake., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 31, 712–723 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-013-2324-7 DOI：

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Abstract

Erhai Lake is the second largest freshwater lake on the Yunnan Plateau

Southwest China. In recent decades

a number of exotic fish species have been introduced into the lake and the fish community has changed considerably. We evaluated the status of the fish community based on surveys with multimesh gillnet

trap net

and benthic fyke-net between May 2009 and April 2012. In addition

we evaluated the change in the community using historical data (1952–2010) describing the fish community and fishery harvest. The current fish community is dominated by small-sized fishes

including Pseudorasbora parva

Rhinogobius giurinus

Micropercops swinhonis

Hemiculter leucisculus

and Rhinogobius cliffordpopei. These accounted for 87.7% of the 22 546 total specimens collected. Omnivorous and carnivorous species dominated the community. A canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) plot revealed that the distribution of fishes in the lake is influenced by aquatic plants

water temperature

and season. The abundance of indigenous species has declined sharply

and a majority of endemic species have been extirpated from the lake (a decrease from seven to two species). In contrast

the number of exotic species has increased since the 1960s to a total of 22 at present. The fishery harvest decreased initially following the 1960s

but has since increased due to the introduction of non-native fish and stocking of native fish. The fishery harvest was significantly correlated with total nitrogen

not total phosphorus

during the past 20 years. Based on our results

we discuss recommendations for the restoration and conservation of the fish resources in Erhai Lake.

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