8
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      RESPUESTA DE LA COMUNIDAD DE PECES AL DRAGADO DE RIOS COSTEROS DE LA REGION DEL BIOBIO (CHILE) Translated title: RESPONSE OF THE FISH COMMUNITY TO DREDGE OF COASTAL RIVERS IN THE BIOBIO REGION (CHILE)

      research-article

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Las comunidades de peces de agua dulce presentan grados de resistencia y resiliencia a actividades antrópicas, los cuales se relacionan positivamente con su diversidad específica y negativamente con los niveles de intervención previa. Los ríos costeros de la zona Centro-Sur de Chile se caracterizan por albergar una diversa ictiofauna, principalmente en sus zonas bajas. En particular, el sector de potamón de los ríos Andalién y Nonguen, ambos insertos en la ciudad de Concepción, son de alto valor de conservación de su biodiversidad. En estos sectores, los eventos recurrentes de inundación de zonas residenciales, construidas en las planicies de inundación, han llevado a que ambos cauces sean dragados y semicanalizados. Las respuestas de las comunidades de peces a este tipo de intervención no han sido estudiadas en Chile. Postulamos que dada su alta diversidad, y bajo nivel de intervención previa, las comunidades ícticas de los ríos Andalién y Nonguen son resistentes y resilientes a los efectos del dragado. Para entender la respuesta comunitaria en ambos ríos, en este estudio primero analizamos los cambios en la estructura en las situaciones previo al dragado, con acciones de dragado y posterior a las mismas. En segundo lugar, analizamos las respuestas especie-específicas, para explicar los cambios comunitarios y conocer la sensibilidad de las distintas especies a esta intervención. Inmediatamente después del dragado se produjo una disminución de la diversidad específica, generándose la dominancia de una única especie, Cheirodon galusdae. Posteriormente, se evidenció una recuperación parcial de los parámetros comunitarios. Basados en las respuestas especie-específicas a este tipo de perturbación identificamos 3 especies resistentes, 3 especies resilientes y 8 especies sensibles. De estas últimas, Nematogenys inermis es la de mayor relevancia en términos de conservación.

          Translated abstract

          The freshwater fish communities present degrees of resistance and resilience to human activities, which have a positive relationship with species diversity, and a negative relation with levels of previous intervention. The costal rivers in the Central-Southern zone of Chile are characterized by a diverse icthyofauna, principally in the low zones. Particularly, the potamon areas of the Andalién and Ñonguen rivers, both running through the city of Concepción, have a high conservation value of biodiversity. In these areas, the reoccurring flooding in residential zones constructed over the fioodplain has caused both channels to be dredged and semi-canalized. The fish community's response to this type of interventions has not been studied yet in Chile. We propose, given its high diversity and low level of previous intervention, that the fish community of the Andalién and Nonguen rivers is resilient to the effects of the dredge. To understand the community response in both rivers, we first analyzed the changes in the structure in situations before the dredge, with dredge actions, as well as after the dredge. Second, we analyzed the species-specific response to explain the community changes and be able to understand the sensibility of the different species to this intervention. Immediately after the dredge, a decrease of the species diversity occurred, generating the dominance of a single species, Cheirodon galusdae. Later, a partial recovery of the community parameters was noted. Based on species-specific responses of this type of perturbation, we identified 3 resistant species, 3 resilient species and 8 sensitive species. Among these last species, Nematogenys inermis has the highest relevance in conservation terms.

          Related collections

          Most cited references37

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          Ecological diversity and its mesasurement

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Book: not found

            River Fisheries

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: found
              • Article: not found

              A global community effort to decipher the unique biology of annual killifish.

              Over the past 50 years, annual killifishes arose as alternative model organisms for studies of vertebrate biology. The annual fish offers exceptional advantages for studies of genetics, genomics, developmental biology, population dynamics, ecology, biogeography, and evolution. They inhabit extremely variable freshwater environments in Africa and South America, have a short lifespan and a set of unique and fascinating developmental characteristics. Embryos survive within the dry substrate during the dry season, whereas the adult population dies. Thus, the survival of the populations is entirely dependent on the buried embryos that hatch the next rainy season. Although Old and New World species share similarities in their life cycle, they also have different adaptive responses associated with climate-related selective pressures. Therefore, contrasting different species from these areas is essential to understand unique adaptations to heterogeneous environment. A network of laboratories (United States, Czech Republic, Italy, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay) is working and collaborating on many aspects of the biology of annual fishes. Participating researchers share projects and cross-training undergraduate and graduate students. These efforts resulted in two International Symposia (2010 and 2015) that took place in Montevideo and an international book. Herein, we summarize the progress made by this global community of scientists. Developmental Dynamics 246:807-811, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                gayana
                Gayana (Concepción)
                Gayana (Concepc.)
                Universidad de Concepción.<br>Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas. (Concepción )
                0717-6538
                2009
                : 73
                : 1
                : 64-75
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidad de Concepción Chile
                [2 ] Universidad de Concepción Chile
                Article
                S0717-65382009000100010
                10.4067/S0717-65382009000100010
                8eff6bb5-ed07-417b-94f9-b08b2e592920

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

                History
                Product

                SciELO Chile

                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0717-6538&lng=en
                Categories
                ZOOLOGY

                Animal science & Zoology
                Nematogenys inermis,native icthyofauna,community response,Andalien River,Nonguen River,peces nativos,respuesta comunitaria,Río Andalién,Río Nonguén

                Comments

                Comment on this article