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Following the severe flooding of the saltmarsh caused by Storm Gloria, multiple fish species colonised numerous sites. However, these spp. disappeared from several locations by summer, suggesting that hyperhaline conditions of the hot, dry season act as a severe environmental filter for many spp.

Fig. 4. Species composition (catch per unit effort) of fish species captured at the sampling sites of La Rovina saltmarsh with fyke nets in February (winter, top figure) and July 2020 (summer, middle figure) and with minnow traps (summer, bottom figure). See Table S1 for more information about the site characteristics.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: ➡The threatened, endemic toothcarp (𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴) and the globally invasive mosquitofish (𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪) were the most abundant species across the saltmarsh and were even more abundant in isolated lagoons.

Figure 5. Heatmap of fish species composition (catch per unit effort) of the sampling sites at La Rovina saltmarsh as a function of connection to the sea (yes/no; ). The sample code (columns) corresponds to the sampling month (F for February and J for July) followed by the sampling site from Table S1. White colour indicates that the species was not recorded, yellow indicates low abundance, and dark blue indicates the highest abundance.

We sampled the fish assemblages and water features of 21 sites across La Rovina saltmarsh (Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Natural Park, Spain) just one month after an exceptional flooding event (Storm Gloria) and again six months later during the summer drought. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀...

Figure S2. Left: photos of toothcarp and mosquitofish captured in La Rovina saltmarsh on 21 July 2020 (from top to bottom: female toothcarp, male toothcarp, female mosquitofish, and male mosquitofish). Middle: site 9 (Clot de la Llúdriga lagoon) on February 18, 2020 (top) and on July 27, 2020 (bottom; also showing a fyke net (in front) and a minnow trap set on the seagrass meadow (Ruppia sp.)). Right: site 6 on February 18, 2020 (top) and on July 20, 2020 (bottom).

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