Fish abundance data in forest steppe and grassland river networks in Mongolia

Maasri, Alain, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1236-8374

Pyron, Mark, Ball State University

Arsenault, Emily, University of Kansas

Thorp, James, University of Kansas

Mendsaikhan, Bud, Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Tromboni, Flavia, University of Nevada Reno

Minder, Mario, Ball State University

Kenner, Scott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Costello, John, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Chandra, Sudeep, University of Nevada Reno

Otgonganbat, Amarbat, National University of Mongolia

Boldgiv, Bazartseren, National University of Mongolia

alainmaasri@gmail.com

Published Feb 16, 2022 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jwstqjq7g

Cite this dataset

Maasri, Alain et al. (2022). Fish abundance data in forest steppe and grassland river networks in Mongolia [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jwstqjq7g

Abstract

Fish abundance data (fish per m) collected during the MACRO project in Mongolia. We collected fish assemblages in river networks of two different ecoregions, the Forest Steppe (FS) and Grassland (G), in 2017 and 2019.

Methods

We established reaches for fish collections measuring at least 20 times the mean wetted width of the river at the sampling area. We collected fishes by single-pass backpack electrofishing supplemented with angling (Ball State University IACUC #126193) following the American Fisheries Society standard collection protocols (Bonar, Hubert, & Willis, 2009), and reported fish abundance as fish-per-meter sampled.

We sampled fishes during one month expeditions in each of the river networks during the month of August in 2017 for the FS and 2019 for the G.

Funding

National Science Foundation, Award: 1442595

Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Award: 01LN1320A