期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
卷 363, 期 1-2, 页码 58-65出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.06.018
关键词
cshallow water; artificial substrate; copepoda; long-term colonisation experiment; meiofauna communities; nematoda; succession
资金
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
An in situ experiment on metazoan meiofauna colonisation and succession was carried out at Brandal (78 degrees 56.88'N, 11 degrees 51.63'E), situated in arctic glacial Kongsfjorden (Spitsbergen). 28 soft sediment containers were deployed at a depth of 20 m and sampled after a one-, two- and three-year immersion period. The main taxonomic groups, abundance of colonising meiofauna and sediment parameters are described and compared. Meiofauna communities at Brandal show the highest densities reported for inner Kongsfjorden to date. While the samples from the three experimental periods and the ambient sediments did not differ in the treatments showed marked differences in community structure as ascertained total individual numbers, by ANOSIM based on Bray Curtis and cosine similarity. An extended three-year period was required until the community stage comparable to ambient sediments was reached. This leads to the assumption that long recovery and colonisation times can be expected for polar shallow water meiofauna. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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