Analyzing the Combined Effect of Multiple Environmental Factors on Fish Distribution, by Means of the Mixed Distribution–Decomposition Approach, as Illustrated by the East China Sea Hairtail
Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of East China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation and Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai 200090, China
Abstract
An organism’s habits are formed primarily as a result of environmental circumstances. Analyzing an organism’s habits and examining their causes requires a thorough understanding of the peculiarities of an organism’s living environments. Analyzing the environmental factors necessary for an organism’s survival is a crucial component of studying how the environment and biology interact. The favorable temperature range for the species has been discovered in previous investigations of the hairtails’ main water temperature distribution range, covering both the water regions with and without the hairtails. It is implied that there may be other elements besides water temperature that also affect dispersion. The hairtail, though, is still the subject of the study. To investigate and confirm the corollaries, salinity and water depth were added as variables. We observed that the intersection of the main ranges of two environmental factors, as well as the main hairtail range of interest, were greatly reduced when compared to a single factor range; the sum of the three factors will further increase the reduction. The primary cause is that the main range of hairtail relative to each factor is incomplete, and the target bodies specified by various factors are very varied. To further investigate the factors that affect the distribution of the organism’s active areas, a comparison between aggregated and non-aggregated waters relative to one factor can be done in the next step. A good sequence of environmental elements, namely temperature>salinity>water depth, is obtained in the above analysis procedure by comparing the accuracy and significance of each factor for the primary range of the hairtail. Additionally, it was noted that the main population of the hairtail covered different areas depending on the season, with less coverage in spring and autumn and greater coverage in summer and winter. The main part of the hairtail population also tended to be distributed closer to the coast in summer and winter, and farther offshore in spring and autumn. These seasonal variations may be related to the two distinct reproductive cycles of hairtail, occuring in spring and autumn.
Funder
Special Project for the Collection and Analysis of Marine Fishing Basic Information in the East China Sea Area, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Special Project for the Investigation of Offshore Fishery Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Special Project for the Investigation of Fisheries Resources in China-Japan Tentative Waters, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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