2000
DOI: 10.1006/ecss.2000.0675
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Composition of Fish Communities in a European Macrotidal Salt Marsh (the Mont Saint-Michel Bay, France)

Abstract: At least 100 fish species are known to be present in the intertidal areas (estuaries, mudflats and salt marshes) of Mont Saint-Michel Bay. These and other comparable shallow marine coastal waters, such as estuaries and lagoons, play a nursery role for many fish species. However, in Europe little attention has been paid to the value of tidal salt marshes for fishes. Between March 1996 and April 1999, 120 tides were sampled in a tidal creek. A total of 31 species were caught. This community was largely dominated… Show more

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“…Vendel (1997) studied the fish assemblage in the same tide channel and, although she used very different collection strategies, especially with regard to the type of net, she also observed a dominance in number and total weight of the species A. parva, H. clupeola, G. genidens, and S. testudineus, whereas there was a difference in the dominance of S. greeleyi and B. ronchus. Although differences exist among the localities with regard to the dominant species, this dominance is exerted by species of low trophic levels (Laffaille et al, 2000;; this study).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 65%
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“…Vendel (1997) studied the fish assemblage in the same tide channel and, although she used very different collection strategies, especially with regard to the type of net, she also observed a dominance in number and total weight of the species A. parva, H. clupeola, G. genidens, and S. testudineus, whereas there was a difference in the dominance of S. greeleyi and B. ronchus. Although differences exist among the localities with regard to the dominant species, this dominance is exerted by species of low trophic levels (Laffaille et al, 2000;; this study).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…In general, different species can dominate in a single tide channel, both in number and weight (Laffaille et al, 2000; this study), although there are cases where this dominance is exerted by the same species (Barletta, 1999;Lin & Shao, 1999). Vendel (1997) studied the fish assemblage in the same tide channel and, although she used very different collection strategies, especially with regard to the type of net, she also observed a dominance in number and total weight of the species A. parva, H. clupeola, G. genidens, and S. testudineus, whereas there was a difference in the dominance of S. greeleyi and B. ronchus.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 72%
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“…When comparing with other European estuarine systems (e.g. Laffaille et al, 2000;Cabral et al, 2001;Gordo and Cabral, 2001;Potter et al, 2001;Costa et al, 2002;Hampel et al, 2003;Malavasi et al, 2004), the main difference that can be found is the absence of Mugilidae as one of the most important families. Beam trawling is often considered a suitable method for sampling benthic species, but tends to underestimate pelagic species (Thiel et al, 2003) such as mugilids.…”
Section: Fish Communitymentioning
confidence: 85%
“…Elliott and Dewailly, 1995;Laffaille et al, 2000;Gordo and Cabral, 2001;Malavasi et al, 2004), reinforcing the importance of small estuaries as nursery areas and their role for the maintenance of coastal stocks. As outlined by Martinho et al (2007), seasonal abundance peaks for these species were recorded, and directly linked to the seasonal patterns of recruitment and migration between enclosed and coastal waters.…”
Section: Fish Communitymentioning
confidence: 99%