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Aquatic Fauna of Water Bodies in the Maly Patok River Basin (the Subpolar Urals). I. Fishes

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The materials of long-term studies (1996–2017) on the fish fauna in the basin of the Maly Patok River, which is the key river in the watershed of European and Siberian rivers and the boundary between the Subpolar and Northern Urals areas, have been generalized. The local ichthyofauna consists of 11 species, including anadromous (Atlantic salmon or summer salmon), semidiadromous (Siberian whitefish), and nonmigratory species. The Siberian whitefish, an invader, forms a semidiadromous lake-and-river form here. A trend towards an increasing role of Siberian whitefish in the formation of the fish part of the aquatic community in a wide range of the lakes located in the mountainous belt area has been identified along with a decreasing share of the previously dominant perch.

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These studies were conducted within scope of the governmental task “Distribution, Systematics, and Spatial Organization of the Fauna and Population of Taiga and Tundra Landscapes and Ecosystems of the European Northeast of Russia,” АААА-А17-117112850235-2.

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Abbreviations: (PIE) index of probability of interspecies occurrences, (H) Shannon information index, (S) Simpron modified index, (Sg) Zhivotovskii index, and (SH) Sheldon index.

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Ponomarev, V.I. Aquatic Fauna of Water Bodies in the Maly Patok River Basin (the Subpolar Urals). I. Fishes. Inland Water Biol 12, 384–392 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082919040114

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