The research was carried out at a sea disposal site located in the Ligurian Sea, some miles off the northern coast of Tuscany, Italy. In the site is preferentially dumped material dredged from the harbor of Leghorn, Tuscany. A faunistic survey of sediment cores taken in three impacted stations and in a control site a month after the dumping found representative of 13 major taxa. Abundance showed the usual trends of most meiofaunal studies with nematodes ranking first followed by harpacticoid copepods nauplii and polychaetes. While Anova cannot detect statistically significant differences between density of total meiofauna and most major taxa in the impacted vs a control site, Cluster analysis allocate on a separated branch the station subject to major discharge.
Meiofauna of a dredging disposal site / Todaro, Mary Antonio Donatello; VIRNO LAMBERTI, C.; Pulcini, M.; Pellegrini, D.; DE RANIERI, S.. - In: BIOLOGIA MARINA MEDITERRANEA. - ISSN 1123-4245. - STAMPA. - 10:(2002), pp. 647-650.
Meiofauna of a dredging disposal site
TODARO, Mary Antonio Donatello;
2002
Abstract
The research was carried out at a sea disposal site located in the Ligurian Sea, some miles off the northern coast of Tuscany, Italy. In the site is preferentially dumped material dredged from the harbor of Leghorn, Tuscany. A faunistic survey of sediment cores taken in three impacted stations and in a control site a month after the dumping found representative of 13 major taxa. Abundance showed the usual trends of most meiofaunal studies with nematodes ranking first followed by harpacticoid copepods nauplii and polychaetes. While Anova cannot detect statistically significant differences between density of total meiofauna and most major taxa in the impacted vs a control site, Cluster analysis allocate on a separated branch the station subject to major discharge.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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