Preliminary Results on the Fish Fauna of the Mures River Basin and Fish Morphometry
Abstract
The aim of the present study is to present the preliminary and partial results of a large scale research on the fish fauna of Mures River and its main tributaries. We present the fish fauna of the Mures River, from source to the border with Hungary. A number of 15 sampling sites were included in the survey. For smapling we used electrofishing. As result, we present the species composition in the 15 sites, population structure and morphometry of this species. Based on the fish species compositon, we also try to sketch up the habitat typology of these waters. In conlusion, we consider the present status of these sites, the species richness and population structure to be only slightly affected by human activity.a) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
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