The goal of this study was to explore the dynamics of the environmental components with fish species assemblages in the Ravi and Chenab rivers of the Himalayan river system during the study period from "July 2020 to June 2021"..... more
The goal of this study was to explore the dynamics of the environmental components with fish species assemblages in the Ravi and Chenab rivers of the Himalayan river system during the study period from "July 2020 to June 2021".. To examine the relationship between fish species and environmental parameters, multivariate statistical analyses including canonical correspondence analysis, principal component analysis and cluster analysis were applied to data from fish species. ANOSIM and SIMPER were used to determine whether fish assemblage varied with seasons or streams and to identify the fish species that contributed to this variation between the sampling sites. To study the effect of environmental factors on fish species richness, multiple regression analysis was used. Fish species belonging to 30 species and 12 different families (Cyprinidae, 66.6%) were recorded from three study sites (Bhini, Jhajjar and Chadwal streams) with Chadwal (34.3%) having the most ichthyofaunal ...
