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Community Structure of Free-living Marine Nematodes in the Area of Agar-Producing Alga Ahnfeltia Tobuchiensis Field (Starka Strait, Peter the Great Bay, East Sea)

  • Pavlyuk, Olga (A.V.Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) ;
  • Trebukhova, Yulia (Far Eastern Marine Biosphere State Natural Reserve, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • Published : 2007.09.30
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Abstract

The structure of the nematodes communities has been studied in the sediments on two sites located outside and under the layer of Ahnfeltia tobuchiensis (Kanno and Matsubara 1932; Makijenko 1970). Bottom sediments at the stations were represented by sands with a different degree of silting. Specific structure of nematodes at the stations was significantly different under the similar environmental conditions (water depth, dissolved oxygen saturation, salinity, temperature of the bottom layer and organic carbon content inside of the sediment). Nematodes dominated (75.7 %) in meiobenthos community under the layer of A. tobuchiensis where concentration of silt particles was 12 %. Representatives of the family Comesomatidae were dominant. Low index of species diversity and high Simpson domination index were detected in this community. Under a layer of A. tobuchiensis with the thickness of 30 cm concentration of the silt particles was 5.39 %; nematodes density was low and made 32.1 % of the general density of meiobenthos. Species of the families Xyalidae and Monoposthiidae were dominant. Outside of A. tobuchiensis, field percentage of silt particles was minimal (3.1 %) and representatives of families Cyatholaimidae and Axonolaimidae dominated. The specific structure of nematodes in this type of the ground is characterized by high index of species diversity and low level of domination.

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