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Meiobenthos and nematode community in Yenisei Bay and adjacent parts of the Kara Sea shelf

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Material is collected on a meridional profile from Yenisei Bay to adjacent parts of the Kara Sea shelf. The length of the profile is 550 km; 13 to 62 m depths. A multiple corer and Niemistö corer are used as sampling tools. The meiobenthos is represented by 13 taxa. Nematodes are the most abundant taxon, and harpacticoid copepods (Harpacticoida) are subdominant. The abundance and taxonomic diversity of meiobenthos and nematodes increases from the freshwater part of Yenisei Bay towards the Kara Sea shelf. Three types of taxocene are distinguished: freshwater, brackish-water, and marine. The taxocene of the estuary is not distinguished by any specific set of species and consists of species characteristic of the nematode community both in the freshwater and marine zones. The trophic structure of the taxocene of nematodes in Yenisei Bay is dominated by nematodes with well-defined stoma and are differently armed. The estuary and shelf are dominated by selective and nonselective deposit feeders.

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Original Russian Text © D.A. Portnova, L.A. Garlitska, A.A. Udalov, D.V. Kondar, 2017, published in Okeanologiya, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 146–159.

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Portnova, D.A., Garlitska, L.A., Udalov, A.A. et al. Meiobenthos and nematode community in Yenisei Bay and adjacent parts of the Kara Sea shelf. Oceanology 57, 130–143 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437017010155

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