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Spatial versus temporal patterns in fish assemblages of a tropical estuarine coastal lake: The Ebrié Lagoon (Ivory Coast)
Authors:Jean-Marc Ecoutin  Emilie Richard  Monique Simier  Jean-Jacques Albaret
Institution:aIRD, BP 1386, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, 18524 Dakar, Senegal;bIRD, Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéenne et Tropicale, Avenue J. Monnet, B.P. 171, 34203 Sète Cedex, France
Abstract:The fish assemblages of the Ebrié lagoon (Ivory Coast) were sampled by experimental fishing over the entire lagoon using a purse seine net. The sampling was conducted in the two main hydroclimatic seasons for this ecosystem, i.e. in the dry season (March–April) and in the wet season (August–September). The results obtained showed a fish assemblage organized around a consistently occurring group of twenty species. When analysed in terms of ecological categories, the seasonal influence led to a cycle in the assemblages from freshwater to marine around this permanent species pool, with a seasonal renewal of the assemblage. At the scale of the lagoon, there were variations in the composition of the assemblages that clearly distinguished the western part from the eastern one. The limit was situated at the Vridi canal, a wide artificial channel permanently connecting the lagoon to the sea. To the west, the assemblage was characterised by a strong spatial uniformity and low seasonal variability. To the east, the assemblage formed two different entities; one assemblage with pronounced freshwater affinities occurring in a side arm and the other assemblage with great seasonal variability under the alternating influence of seawater in the dry season and freshwater in the wet season. This part of the lagoon functioned somewhat like a typical estuary.
Keywords:fish assemblages  tropical lagoon  spatio-temporal pattern  correspondence analysis  West Africa
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