Abstract:
Based on the bottom trawl surveys in May of 2013, we investigated the community structure and biodiversity of nekton near Oufei Beach of Wenzhou by traditional diversity analysis, abundance-biomass comparison curves, clustering analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling. A total of 87 species were collected, including 55 species of fish, 18 species of shrimps, 10 species of crabs and 4 species of cephalopods. The dominant species were
Amblychaeturichthys hexanema,
Pampus argenteus and
Harpodon nehereus; the important species were
Lateolabrax maculatus,
Collichthys lucidus and other 15 species. The densities of nekton quantity and weight were 304.6
×10
3 ind · km
-2 and 365.8 kg · km
-2, respectively. Cluster analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis reveal that the nekton community could be spatially clustered into three groups. ANOSIM analysis shows very significant difference in nekton species composition among all groups (
R=0.463~0.807). The abundance and biomass curves (ABC) indicate that the nekton community was seriously disturbed, and the fast-growing, small-sized and opportunistic
r-strategist was dominant in the nekton community. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index (
H′), Pielou evenness index (
J′) and Margalef species richness index (
D) ranged from 1.31 to 3.74, 0.33 to 0.78, and 1.80 to 5.81, respectively.