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Patterns of species richness, abundance and individual-size distributions in native-stream fish assemblages invaded by exotic and translocated fishes
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Predicting the impacts of species introductions long has attracted the attention of ecologists yet there still is limited insight into how impacts on native assemblages vary with the degree of shared evolutionary context. Here, we used data from 535 stream-fish surveys from 15 catchments in north-eastern Spain (99,700 km2) to explore whether the relative effects on native fishes differ between fish introductions from two different ecoregions (i.e., evolutionary contexts), namely, catchments within Iberian Peninsula (i.e., ‘translocated species’) and catchments beyond Iberian Peninsula (i.e., ‘exotic fishes’). We used hierarchical Bayesian models to relate taxon richness, abundance, and the individual-size distributions (ISDs) of native fishes to the presence, abundance, and weighted trophic level (TL) of translocated and exotic fishes, conditional on geographic and habitat covariates. Environmental covariates dominated the percentage of explained variance (≥ 65%) for all responses. Translocated fishes accounted for more of the explained variance than did exotic fishes for ISDs and abundance, but not for native fish species richness. The presence of translocated fishes was associated with lower abundance and richness of native fishes, with individuals being smaller in the presence of translocated fishes of higher TL. The presence of exotic fishes was associated with a greater abundance and richness of native fishes, with individuals generally being larger in the presence of exotic fishes. Our study suggests that translocated fishes could be as problematic as exotic fishes when angling and water transfers among catchments to deal with climate change may increase the establishment of translocated fishes. We also discuss the difficulties of using fish body size as species-blind, transferable assemblage-level trait in fish monitoring.
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MACEDA VEIGA, Alberto, MAC NALLY, Ralph, SOSTOA FERNÁNDEZ, Adolfo de, YEN, Jian d.l.. Patterns of species richness, abundance and individual-size distributions in native-stream fish assemblages invaded by exotic and translocated fishes. _Science of the Total Environment_. 2022. Vol. 838. [consulta: 21 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0048-9697. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/213862]