Ecological Notes of the Fishes and the Interspecific Relations among Them in Lake Biwa
Ecological Notes of the Fishes and the Interspecific Relations among Them in Lake Biwa
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琵琶湖鱼类的生态记录及其种间关系
DOI:
10.3739/rikusui.27.49
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发表时间:
1966
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
T. Miura
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作者:
T. Miura
Lake Biwa has been much interested by biologists, specially by ichthiologists because of the richness and variety of the lake fish fauna and of their diverse origin. Therefore, a good number of papers on taxonomic researches of the fishes have been published. However ecological studies of the fishes have been poorly made. Freshwater environments as well as terrestrial ones have been practically reformed, accompanied with development of human society and specially of industries and agriculture. Lake Biwa is also not an exception. Recently the ministry of construction is planning to construct a dam between the north basin and the south basin of the lake, and to pump up water from the north basin to the south one for the purpose of holding a continuous water supply to the outlet river. By such programme the two basins will nearly be disconnected and the water level of the north basin is often expected to be lowered. It can be easily expected that production of the organisms in the lake will be affected by the reformation, so that it 'is important to predict how the organic production will be affected, and to propose how the programme should be made in order to benefit the local people, especially the fishermen. Thus, about sixty scientists including biologists, physicists, chemists and agricultural economists had formed a co-operative research team and have investigated the biotic resources of the lake from 1962 to 1965. Through this investigation ecological studies of some of the fish species have been intensively made. This paper presents, in the first place, descriptions of ecological elements of the fishes including spawning, habitat, feeding and growth etc., and introductions of some other ecological works. Secondly, by comparison of their ecologies,