Movement behaviour of large female yellow European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a freshwater polder area
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- Pieterjan Verhelst (UGent) , Jan Reubens (UGent) , Ine Pauwels, David Buysse, Bart Aelterman, Stijn Van Hoey, Peter Goethals (UGent) , Tom Moens (UGent) , Johan Coeck and Ans Mouton (UGent)
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- Due to a recruitment decline of more than 90% in 30 years, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) has been classified by IUCN as critically endangered. Although the species has been studied intensively to obtain knowledge to improve management, studies about the resident yellow stage are relatively scarce. In this study, 52 large female yellow eels were tagged with acoustic transmitters in a Belgian polder system and tracked by a network of 23 automatic listening stations. We studied both circadian and seasonal movement patterns and the effect of environmental variables on these patterns. Large female yellow eels were most active at night in late summer and early autumn. A generalised linear mixed model showed that their movement is only slightly influenced by environmental variables. Moreover, as yellow eels show high site fidelity (i.e., the majority was detected only in the habitat type of their catch-release location), they do not encounter many human-induced connectivity problems in polder systems, which makes these systems highly suitable as eel growth habitat. These results can contribute to an effective eel management regarding habitat protection and restoration.
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- acoustic telemetry, circadian, European eel, movement, movement range, seasonal, DOWNSTREAM MIGRATION, SEASONAL MOVEMENTS, AMERICAN EELS, SIZE-CLASSES, RIVER MEUSE, HABITAT USE, SILVER EEL, SPACE USE, PATTERNS, DIEL
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8520669
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- Verhelst, Pieterjan, et al. “Movement Behaviour of Large Female Yellow European Eel (Anguilla Anguilla L.) in a Freshwater Polder Area.” ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH, vol. 27, no. 1, 2018, pp. 471–80, doi:10.1111/eff.12362.
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- Verhelst, P., Reubens, J., Pauwels, I., Buysse, D., Aelterman, B., Van Hoey, S., … Mouton, A. (2018). Movement behaviour of large female yellow European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a freshwater polder area. ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH, 27(1), 471–480. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12362
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- Verhelst, Pieterjan, Jan Reubens, Ine Pauwels, David Buysse, Bart Aelterman, Stijn Van Hoey, Peter Goethals, Tom Moens, Johan Coeck, and Ans Mouton. 2018. “Movement Behaviour of Large Female Yellow European Eel (Anguilla Anguilla L.) in a Freshwater Polder Area.” ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH 27 (1): 471–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12362.
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- Verhelst, Pieterjan, Jan Reubens, Ine Pauwels, David Buysse, Bart Aelterman, Stijn Van Hoey, Peter Goethals, Tom Moens, Johan Coeck, and Ans Mouton. 2018. “Movement Behaviour of Large Female Yellow European Eel (Anguilla Anguilla L.) in a Freshwater Polder Area.” ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH 27 (1): 471–480. doi:10.1111/eff.12362.
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- 1.Verhelst P, Reubens J, Pauwels I, Buysse D, Aelterman B, Van Hoey S, et al. Movement behaviour of large female yellow European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a freshwater polder area. ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH. 2018;27(1):471–80.
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- [1]P. Verhelst et al., “Movement behaviour of large female yellow European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a freshwater polder area,” ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 471–480, 2018.
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abstract = {{Due to a recruitment decline of more than 90% in 30 years, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) has been classified by IUCN as critically endangered. Although the species has been studied intensively to obtain knowledge to improve management, studies about the resident yellow stage are relatively scarce. In this study, 52 large female yellow eels were tagged with acoustic transmitters in a Belgian polder system and tracked by a network of 23 automatic listening stations. We studied both circadian and seasonal movement patterns and the effect of environmental variables on these patterns. Large female yellow eels were most active at night in late summer and early autumn. A generalised linear mixed model showed that their movement is only slightly influenced by environmental variables. Moreover, as yellow eels show high site fidelity (i.e., the majority was detected only in the habitat type of their catch-release location), they do not encounter many human-induced connectivity problems in polder systems, which makes these systems highly suitable as eel growth habitat. These results can contribute to an effective eel management regarding habitat protection and restoration.}},
author = {{Verhelst, Pieterjan and Reubens, Jan and Pauwels, Ine and Buysse, David and Aelterman, Bart and Van Hoey, Stijn and Goethals, Peter and Moens, Tom and Coeck, Johan and Mouton, Ans}},
issn = {{0906-6691}},
journal = {{ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH}},
keywords = {{acoustic telemetry,circadian,European eel,movement,movement range,seasonal,DOWNSTREAM MIGRATION,SEASONAL MOVEMENTS,AMERICAN EELS,SIZE-CLASSES,RIVER MEUSE,HABITAT USE,SILVER EEL,SPACE USE,PATTERNS,DIEL}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{1}},
pages = {{471--480}},
title = {{Movement behaviour of large female yellow European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a freshwater polder area}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12362}},
volume = {{27}},
year = {{2018}},
}
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