Introduction:Damming is one of the dramatic impacts to river food webs due to habitat fragmentation and changes in the hydrological regimes.The world’s largest dam,the Three Gorges Dam(TGD),has been constructed in the middle of Yangtze River since 2003.The objective of this study was to understand the effects of altered hydrological regime on the trophic structure of fish food web along the hydrological gradient in the TGD.Methods:Fish samples were collected from an upstream,a midstream and a downstream site of the Yangtze River upstream of the TGD in May and September of 2004.Muscle tissue of each fish species was determined for stable isotopic compositions(δ^(13)C and δ^(15)N)which were used to calculate isotope-based Bayesian community-wide trophic metrics.Results:Stable isotope trophic niche analysis reveals reduced utilization of basal resource and trophic niche space at the midstream and downstream sites.By contrast,community trophic diversity and species redundancy were higher at the downstream than the upstream and midstream,likely as the result of reduced the spectrum of basal resources.These findings suggested that the negative impacts on the overall trophic niche space from reduced flow,increased water depth and stagnancy occurred only one year after the completion of the TGD.Conclusions:Altered hydrological regimes posed multiple impacts to the aquatic food web.Reduced flow and increased water depth within TGD has posed initial effects to the fish community trophic structure.Further collections ana analysis of ecological data to compare the fish trophic structure revealed in this study are needed to assess the long-term impacts of TGD on fish community structure and resources utilization.
本研究基于2016年对南海三省区的14个沿海主要渔港的连续4个季节抽样调查(共计5256航次,抽样总功率达到89.2×10^4 kW),以kg·kW^-1·d^-1作为CPUE(Catch per unit effort,单位捕捞努力量渔获量)标准化后的单位,对南海9种捕捞作业类型渔船的CPUE进行了比较分析。结果显示,CPUE围网>CPUE双拖>CPUE刺网>CPUE罩网>CPUE张网>CPUE单拖>CPUE虾拖>CPUE笼壶>CPUE钓具。不同捕捞作业类型CPUE随渔船功率段的变化而不同,CPUE峰值数及其所对应的最优功率段(渔获率最高的功率段)也有差异,单拖和虾拖渔船的CPUE随渔船功率的变化具有1个CPUE峰值点,最优功率段分别为(200~250)kW(CPUE=8.6 kg·kW^-1·d^-1)和(150~200)kW(CPUE=5.0 kg·kW^-1·d^-1);围网、双拖、钓具和刺网渔船的CPUE随渔船功率的变化有2个CPUE峰值点,对应的最优功率段分别为(200~250)kW(CPUE=47.7 kg·kW^-1·d^-1)、(350~400)kW(CPUE=16.8kg·kW^-1·d^-1)、(50~100)(CPUE=2.9kg·kW^-1·d^-1)和(0~50)kW(CPUE=6.9 kg·kW^-1·d^-1)。罩网渔船CPUE随功率段变化有3个峰值点,最优功率段为(0~50)kW(CPUE=7.0kg·kW^-1·d^-1)。不同捕捞作业类型CPUE季节变化表现:围网CPUE均值在春季最高,单拖、双拖、罩网、钓具和笼壶在夏季最高,张网在秋季最高,刺网和虾拖在冬季最高。
