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Climato-environmental influence on breeding phenology of native catfishes in River Ganga and modeling species response to climatic variability for their conservation

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The main objectives of the present study were to quantify the environmental, especially temperature and rainfall, effects on breeding phenology of selected catfish species and to predict changes in breeding phenology of the selected species in relation to climatic variability for the Ganga River Basin. The study showed that changes in rainfall pattern may have the most profound effect on gonad maturation and breeding of Mystus tengara and Mystus cavasius followed by the effect of increased water temperature due to rising air temperature. Indication of region-specific adaptation was noticed in reproductive phenology of Eutropiichthys vacha based on local trends of warming climate. The other habitat parameters, such as dissolved oxygen, alkalinity, nitrate, and phosphate, were correlated with gonad maturity and spawning. Climatic variability may bring region-specific changes in breeding phenology of fish species in the Ganga River. Under a warming climate, changes in precipitation pattern manifested into riverine flow pulse may be the key driver in dictating breeding phenology. Our study indicates E. vacha as a climate sensitive species that may be selected as a target species for climate change impact studies.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to the Director, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore. Fourth author separately acknowledges the funds from CENAKVA project (LM2018099) and Biodiversity (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_025/0007370) for supporting him during manuscript preparation.

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The financial help of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi (ICAR) for funding in the project National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) is also gratefully acknowledged for this study.

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  1. Koushik Roy

    Present address: Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Institute of Aquaculture and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

  2. Sandipan Gupta

    Present address: Department of Applied Science and Humanities, Invertis University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

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    Uttam Kumar Sarkar, Malay Naskar, Pankaj Kumar Srivastava, Koushik Roy, Soma Das Sarkar, Sandipan Gupta, Arun Kumar Bose, Saurav Kumar Nandy, Vinod Kumar Verma, Deepa Sudheesan & Gunjan Karnatak

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Sarkar, U.K., Naskar, M., Srivastava, P.K. et al. Climato-environmental influence on breeding phenology of native catfishes in River Ganga and modeling species response to climatic variability for their conservation. Int J Biometeorol 63, 991–1004 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01703-3

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