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Assessment of fish species assemblage on mesohabitat scale: A case of middle stretch of Narmada River, India.

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Title Assessment of fish species assemblage on mesohabitat scale: A case of middle stretch of Narmada River, India.
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Creator Malay Naskar
S. K. Sahu
A.P. Sharma
 
Subject pool-run
run-riffle
cluster analysis
nonmetric multidimensional scaling
analysis of similarity
logistic regression
 
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In river ecosystems, mesohabitat characteristics (i.e. pool, run, riffle, rapids, etc.) act as proximate variables to fish species occurrence. Fish occurrence and mesohabitat data are very often collected independently for different purposes, which invites challenges to characterize the fish species distribution pattern on mesohabitat scale. The present article delineates quantitative assessment of fish occurrence in relation to mesohabitat using secondary data. Middle stretch of the Narmada River of India has been selected for the study. Geographic information system tools have been used for integration of species and mesohabitat data. Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling, cluster analysis and Analysis of Similarity techniques have been used for similarity analysis. Logistic regression model has been applied for model-based inferences on family-mesohabitat relationship. Two separate mesohabitat types, viz., Pool-Run and Run-Riffle, have been characterized by the fish species occurrence pattern. Dissimilarity of fish species composition between Pool-Run and Run-Riffle was statistically significant (p-value < 0.05). The family-mesohabiat model predicted that the occurrence probability of a fish species was 14.49 times more in the Pool-Run than that in the Run-Riffle. The predictive accuracy of the model was 69.8%.
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Date 2018-10-09T13:53:05Z
2018-10-09T13:53:05Z
2015-04-23
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Naskar, Malay, Sahu , S. K. and Sharma A. P.(2015) Assessment of fish species assemblage on mesohabitat scale: A case of middle stretch of Narmada River, India. AEHMS. 18(2):232-239
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7679
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Taylor and Francis