期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 503, 期 -, 页码 213-221出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.06.020
关键词
Guadalquivir estuary; Climatic cycle; Water scarcity; Freshwater inputs; Aquatic macrofauna; Estuarine community
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [REN2000-0822 MAR, CSD2009-00065]
- European Funds for Sustainable Fisheries through Consejeria Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural - Junta de Andalucia [CAD10-29]
In the Mediterranean-climate zone, recurrent drought events and increasing water demand generally lead to a decrease in freshwater input to estuaries. This water scarcity may alter the proper function of estuaries as nursery areas for marine species and as permanent habitat for estuarine species. A 12-year data set of the aquatic macrofauna (fish, decapod and mysid crustaceans) in a Mediterranean estuary (Guadalquivir estuary, South Spain) was analysed,to test if water scarcity favours the nursery function of regional estuaries to the detriment of permanent estuarine inhabitants. Target species typically displayed a salinity-related distribution and estuarine salinisation in dry years resulted in a general upstream community displacement. However, annual densities of marine species were neither consistently higher in dry years nor estuarine species during wet years, Exceptions included the estuarine mysid Neomysis integer and the marine shrimp Crangon crangon, which were more abundant in wet and dry years, respectively. High and persistent turbidity, a collateral effect of water scarcity, altered both the structural (salinity-related pattern) and functional (key prey species and predator density) community characteristics, chiefly after the second drought period of the analysis. The observed high inter-year environmental variability, as well as species-specific effects of water scarcity, suggests that exhaustive and long-term sampling programmes will be required for rigorously monitoring the estuarine communities of the Mediterranean-climate region. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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