There is not a current method to estimate South American freshwater stingray’s abundance. Therefore we designed a census method and tested it in the field. It consists of making nocturnal surveys by boat in large rivers (>25m width) and floodplain lagoons of varying sizes, along transects of...
- Autores:
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Morales-Betancourt, Mónica Andrea; Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Street 28a #15-09 Bogotá, Colombia
Lasso-Alcalá, Carlos Andrés; Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Street 28a #15-09 Bogotá, Colombia
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Universidad Javeriana
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.javeriana.edu.co:10554/30988
- Acceso en línea:
- http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/15364
http://hdl.handle.net/10554/30988
- Palabra clave:
- Marine Biology
density; Potamotrygonidae; Orinoco river basin; Colombia.
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | There is not a current method to estimate South American freshwater stingray’s abundance. Therefore we designed a census method and tested it in the field. It consists of making nocturnal surveys by boat in large rivers (>25m width) and floodplain lagoons of varying sizes, along transects of 100m x 10m (1000 m2). We applied this method in the Tomo River, a tributary of the Orinoco River in Colombia. 110 transects were surveyed in 200 runs. A total of 149 rays of four species were recorded: Potamotrygon motoro, Potamotrygon orbignyi, Potamotrygon schroederi and Paratrygon aiereba. P. motoro was the most abundant with a density of 0.31 individuals /1000 m2 (SD=0.5). This method gave optimal results when applied to habitats with high transparency and shallow depth (< 1m) since it permitted the identification of both adults and juveniles present. |
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