Extinction risk to lake minnow (Eupallasella percnurus) due to habitat loss: Eastern Poland case study.

ABSTRACT: In Poland, lake minnow (Eupallasella percnurus Pall.) inhabit 160 sites, including 44 in the eastern part of the country. Their habitats are mainly small and shallow peat holes vulnerable to complete destruction due to being dried or overgrown. Such processes are regularly observed, with ~ 60% of sites having vanished since the 1950s. Therefore, this species is one of the most endangered fish species from the Cyprinidae family in Polish inland waters. A GIS approach was adopted to fully analyze their habitat loss. The habitat area was marked in four time periods (from the 1960s to 2018) in reference to 26 sites composed of 111 reservoirs and representing almost 60% of all those documented in Eastern Poland. On this basis, the rate at which the habitat will vanish and the predicted time whe

SUBMITTER: Sowinska-Swierkosz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6697757 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature