Skip to content
akaturk Academic measurement

Article detail · 2021

Establishment and range expansion of non-native fish species facilitated by hot springs: the case study from the Upper Sakarya Basin (NW, Turkey)

YÖKSİS OpenAlex Open access · diamond SJR Q3 JCR Q4 Citations 22 Percentile 82.6% FWCI 1.58
Year
2021
Type
article

Data source split

  • YÖKSİS YÖKSİS article record
  • YÖKSİS venue Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies
  • Catalog match (ISSN) Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies
  • OpenAlex OpenAlex enrichment (abstract, citations, topics)

Abstract

OpenAlex · English

Abstract Non-native species can enter new habitats and ecosystems in a variety of ways. Suitable ecological conditions must exist for non-native species to reproduce in newly colonized habitats. Hot springs are suitable habitats for tropical, aquarium, and ornamental fish species. This paper presents the results of research on the distribution of non-native and native species in relation to environmental factors in the Upper Sakarya Basin, where several such springs are present. The fish fauna in the basin includes native (60% – 21 species, 14 of which are endemic) and non-native (40% – 14 species) fish species. Most of the non-native species (seven species) were found only in warm springs (minimum water temperature 16°C). In addition, 75 fish species belonging to 26 families were found throughout the Sakarya Basin. Hot springs were found to play an important role in the establishment of non-native species. The Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) results revealed that the non-native species density was high in the Upper Sakarya Basin where hot springs are common. This confirms that minimum and maximum temperatures are the main drivers of changes in the distribution of non-native fish species. Two aquarium fishes,Bujurguina vittataandXiphophorusspp., are reported for the first time in the present study for inland waters of Turkey.

Topics

Citations

OpenAlex cited_by_count. Not a WoS or Scopus citation count; those sources have no separate column here.

22 citations

OpenAlex cited_by_count (cache / database)

Authors

  1. SADİ AKSU
  2. Sercan Başkurt
  3. ÖZGÜR EMİROĞLU
  4. ALİ SERHAN TARKAN MUĞLA SITKI KOÇMAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ