A multi-metric fish index to measure the ecological quality of tropical predominantly open estuaries along the western coast of India.
Composite pressure index
Ecological integrity
Ecological quality ratio
India’s western coast
Multi-metric fish index
Tropical estuary
Journal
Environmental monitoring and assessment
ISSN: 1573-2959
Titre abrégé: Environ Monit Assess
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8508350
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023
Historique:
received:
16
11
2022
accepted:
07
02
2023
entrez:
22
2
2023
pubmed:
23
2
2023
medline:
25
2
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Defining the ecological quality of estuaries is challenging because of the inadequacy of available methods and indices to characterise the ecosystem. In Indian estuaries, there are no scientific attempts to establish multi-metric fish index to determine the ecological status. A multi-metric fish index (EMFI) was customised for twelve predominantly open estuaries on India's western coast. The index was established at the individual estuary level to ensure uniformity and contrast from sixteen metrics that designate the fish community and diversity, composition and abundance, estuarine use and trophic integrity from 2016 to 2019. A sensitivity study was followed to measure the responses of the EMFI under different metric varying scenarios. There were seven metrics identified as the most prominent for the EMFI in metric alteration scenarios. We also deduced a composite pressure index (CPI) based on the anthropogenic pressures described for the estuaries. The ecological quality ratios (EQR) defined based on EMFI (EQR
Identifiants
pubmed: 36811708
doi: 10.1007/s10661-023-11013-2
pii: 10.1007/s10661-023-11013-2
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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