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TI Effects of forest cover on richness of threatened fish species in Japan
BT 
AF Lavergne, Edouard
   Kume, Manabu
   Ahn, Hyojin
   Henmi, Yumi
   Terashima, Yuki
   Ye, Feng
   Kameyama, Satoshi
   KAI, Yoshiaki
   Kadowaki, Kohmei
   Kobayashi, Shiho
   Yamashita, Yoh
   Kasai, Akihide
AS 1:1,2,3,4;2:1,2;3:2,5;4:1,2;5:2;6:2,6;7:6;8:1;9:1,7;10:1;11:1,2;12:5;
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C1 Kyoto University, Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC) Kyoto ,Japan
   Kyoto University, Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and Oceans Kyoto ,Japan
   Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UMR 6539, CNRS/IRD/UBO/Ifremer, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) Plouzané ,France
   Plastic@Sea 1 Avenue Pierre Fabre Banyuls‐sur‐Mer 66650, France
   Hokkaido University, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences Hakodate, Japan
   National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Tsukuba ,Japan
   Kyoto University, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Graduate School of Agriculture Kyoto ,Japan
C2 UNIV KYOTO, JAPAN
   UNIV KYOTO, JAPAN
   UBO, FRANCE
   PLASTIC@SEA, FRANCE
   UNIV HOKKAIDO, JAPAN
   NIES, JAPAN
   UNIV KYOTO, JAPAN
UM LEMAR
IN WOS Cotutelle UMR
   copubli-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 6.3
TC 3
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00730/84246/89198.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00730/84246/89199.xlsx
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00730/84246/89200.docx
LA English
DT Article
DE ;anthropogenic activity;coastal water bodies;environmental DNA metabarcoding;estuary;land use;actividad antropogenica;cuerpos de agua costeros;estuario;metasecuenciacion de ADN ambiental;uso de suelo
AB Estuaries — one of the most vulnerable ecosystems globally — face anthropogenic threats, including biodiversity loss and the collapse of sustainable fisheries. Determining the factors contributing to the maintenance of estuarine biodiversity, especially that of fish, is vital for promoting estuarine conservation and sustainability. We used environmental DNA metabarcoding analysis to determine fish species composition in 22 estuaries around Japan and measured watershed-scale land-use factors (e.g., population size, urban area percentage, and forest area percentage). We sought to test the hypothesis that the richness of the most vulnerable estuarine fish species (i.e., registered by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment in the national species red-list) is determined by watershed-scale land-use factors. The richness of such species was greater where forest cover was highest; thus, forest cover contributes to their conservation. The proportion of agriculture cover was associated with low species richness of red-listed fishes (redundancy analysis, adjusted R2 = 43.9% of total variance, df = 5, F = 5.3843, p = 0.0001). The number of red-listed species increased from 3 to 12 along a watershed land-use gradient ranging from a high proportion of agriculture cover to a large proportion of forest cover. Furthermore, the results showed that throughout Japan all the examined watersheds that were covered by >74.8% forest had more than the average (6.7 species per site) richness of red-listed fish species. This result can be attributed to the already high average forest cover in Japan of 67.2%. Our results demonstrate how the land use of watersheds can affect the coastal sea environment and its biodiversity and suggest that proper forest management in conjunction with land-use management may be of prime importance for threatened fish species and coastal ecosystems in general. 
PY 2022
PD JUL
SO Conservation Biology
SN 0888-8892
PU Wiley
VL 36
IS 3
UT 000725083900001
DI 10.1111/cobi.13849
ID 84246
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