Fig 1.
Map showing the course and location of selected sampling sites.
Source: Generated by Survey of India (SOI) topographic sheets (Arc-GIS 9.0) software Landsat ETM Landsat 8 OLI satellite data, 2020.
Table 1.
Geomorphological attributes of different sampling stations.
Table 2.
Methods and equipment to collect results.
Table 3.
Diversity index formulae used for selected three sites.
Table 4.
Spatial and temporal variability of the environmental characteristics of sampling sites of Vaishav stream (p < 0.05).
Fig 2.
Monthly fish catch from Vaishav stream November 2019 –Oct. 2020 at Site-I, Site-II, and Site-III.
Table 5.
Seasonal Occurrence of fish species sampled in three stations of Vaishav Stream (J&K), 2019–2020.
Probable seasonal Occurrence (S.O. and site occurance, column) indicated by symbols: Y- Yearlong occurrence, W- present only warmer months, e- entire stream. Sampling with the help of fishermen.
Fig 3.
Illustration of t-test between the sites and between the seasons, ("***" = 0.001,"**" = 0.01,"*" = 0.05, ns = not significant).
Fig 4.
Seasonal fish catch in Vaishav stream at three selected site from Nov. 2019—Oct. 2020.
Table 6.
Percentage (%), total abundance and relative abundance of fishes in Vaishav stream (J&K), at three selected stations from Nov.2019 –Oct. 2020.
Indicated by symbols: TA- Total dominant, RA- Relative abundance, D- dominant, M- moderate, R- rare.
Table 7.
Jaccard’s similarity index of fish species at three selected sites.
Fig 5.
Cluster dendrogram and alpha diversity between the sampling sites on the basis of fish community.
Fig 6.
NMDS showing spatiotemporal patterns and relationships between various environmental factors and fish community.
Fig 7.
Principal component analysis and scree plot between fish components and environmental variables.