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Comparison of macrobenthic communities between the invasive Spartina alterniflora and native Suaeda glauca habitats in the Yellow River Delta

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Salt marsh habitats in estuaries play important roles in species compositions and macrobenthos abundances. Here, the macrobenthic communities and environmental conditions in two habitats, which are dominated by the invasive species Spartina alterniflora (SA) and native species Suaeda glauca (SG), in the Yellow River Delta (YRD) were studied to assess habitat function in four months of one year. The species diversity and abundance of macrobenthos in the SA habitat were much higher than those in the SG habitat. The taxonomic groups in the former showed significant changes over time and shifted from polychaeta (68%) in spring to mollusca (97%) in autumn, but in the latter, it was dominated by crustacea (63 ~ 86%), mollusca (1 ~ 25%) and polychaeta (9 ~ 13%), and only mollusca exhibited obvious month changes. The sediments in the SA habitat contained richer organic matter contents and exhibited higher Chl-a concentrations than those in the SG habitat, although the grain sizes were coarser in the SA habitat. Macrobenthos in the SA habitat displayed significant negative correlations with salinity and organic matter in four months. The results indicated that the taxonomic groups of macrobenthos in the SA habitat were simpler and more sensitive to environmental changes than those in the SG habitat. The effects of invasive SA on macrobenthos need to be further observed and explored, if it continues to expand in the YRD.

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This research was financed by the “the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41730529, 41766004), the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (No. SKLEC-KF201704), the Project of Hainan Tropical Ocean University (RHDXB201710), and Chinese Academy of Sciences”.

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    Qiuying Han, Yujue Wang & Dongyan Liu

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Han, Q., Han, Q., Wang, Y. et al. Comparison of macrobenthic communities between the invasive Spartina alterniflora and native Suaeda glauca habitats in the Yellow River Delta. Wetlands Ecol Manage 30, 497–511 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-022-09876-2

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