Diversity of Fish Fauna in Gediz Estuary Lagoons (Izmir Bay/Aegean Sea)
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2008
Yazarlar: Bahar BAYHAN, Tuncay Murat SEVER, Murat KAYA
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL AND VETERINARY ADVANCES, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2008, cilt 7, ss 1146-1150
Özet
In order to establish the present fish fauna in Gediz estuary lagoons, sampling was conducted in the 4 stations, one inside Gediz river mouth and 3 in the lagoons during 2004. In the first station, a commercial trawling with 44 mm codend mesh size to determine fish fauna was used and sub marine observations or beach seine of I mm mesh size employed to establish fish fauna in the lagoons, Kirdeniz, Homa and Cilazmak, which are relatively shallow. In addition some physicochemical parameters such as temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and chlorophyl-a which all play significant roles were measured for each stations monthly. As the result of the research, 56 fish species of 24 families were found from the 4 stations. According to a Bray-Curtis similarity index and multi dimensional scaling analysis in relation to the lagoons, 2 groups are formed based on diversity of fish fauna; Kirdeniz, Homa and Cilazmak are similar to one another in diversity of species, with the first station being different from them.