Fish community structure of a mangrove creek, Tudor, Kenya (Record no. 4992)
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| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 97.092 WAIN 2010 REF |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wainaina, M. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fish community structure of a mangrove creek, Tudor, Kenya |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Date of publication | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | 68 |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | $ 20 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The results of a beach seine survey of an East African mangrove creek are presented. The fish community of the creek is described and is compared with that of a nearby lagoonal site and with those described for other mangrove and estuarine systems. The species composition was found to differ substantially between the creek and the lagoon site, though diversity indices for the two areas were similar. Eighty-three species of teleost fish werecollected from the mangrove area of the creek. This number is considered high in relation to comparable studies and is attributed to the constant high salinity (approximately 35%o) measured throughout the study period. Approximately 90% of the fish caught were juveniles. Plankton sampling was also carried out and representatives of 21 fish families were collected as larvae within the creek. Catches from both beach seining and plankton sampling in the mangrove areas were dominated numerically by resident clupeid and gobiid species. The majority of species, however, were considered to have a widespread distribution as adults. A discrepancy between the catch composition of larvae and juveniles suggests that species that use the creek as a nursery area enter the system principally at a post-larval/ juvenile stage of development. No systematic spatial or temporal variation in the community structure was identified over the study period. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Fish community |
| -- | Temporal variation |
| -- | Spatial variation |
| -- | Beach seine survey |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Electronic format type | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98 |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98 |
| Link text | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98 |
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| Koha item type | Thesis |
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