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Fish Abundance and Diversity During Low and High Flow Seasons of River Ravi, Punjab, Pakistan

Fish Abundance and Diversity During Low and High Flow Seasons of River Ravi, Punjab, Pakistan

Hafiz Muhammad Ashraf, Hafiz Abdullah Shakir* and Javed Iqbal Qazi

Institute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

 
* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Fig. 1.

Fish sampling locations on map with global positioning system (GPS) coordinates.

Fig. 2.

Percentage composition of abundance and species in families.

Fig. 3.

Site based variations in abundance and species composition of cached samples in both seasons.

Fig. 4.

Conservation status (percentage) of captured fish species as per IUCN red list.

Fig. 5.
Comparison of Fifteen year IUCN Status of fish species. (Source; IUCN Red List version 2021-1: Table 2 Last updated: 25 March 2021).
Fig. 6.
Dendrogram showing Euclidian Distance in different sites based cached fishes; (A) during Low flow and (B) high flow season. 
HDB, Head Balloki; HDS, Head Sidhnai.
Fig. 7.

Principle component analysis of fish Species and sampling sites during low (A) and high (B) flow season. HDB, Head Balloki; HDS, Head Sidhnai 

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Table IV.

Site based diversity indices calculated for the fishes recorded in both (low and high flow) season from River Ravi.

HDB, Head Balloki; HDS, Head Sidhnai.

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

October

Pakistan J. Zool., Vol. 56, Iss. 5, pp. 2001-2500

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