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Marine transportation requires maintenance dredging of navigation channels to allow large ships access to inland ports. These dredging activities have repercussions on the benthic habitat, modifying the bottom topography and inducing habitat degradation. In this study, we analyzed the polychaete community composition before, during, and after a maintenance dredging carried out in the tropical estuary of Buenaventura Bay. Transparency, salinity, and dissolved oxygen exhibited temporal variation (p < 0.05) before, during, and after the maintenance dredging. Significant variation in sediment granulometric composition and OM content (p < 0.05) was observed in E1 and E2. Gravel (%), coarse silt (%), organic matter (%), transparency (cm), and disolved oxygen (mg L−1) were the most influential environmental parameters on the polychaete community composition. Polychaete density varied from 0 to 3050 ind. m−2 in E1 and 25 to 1350 ind. m−2 E2. The families Cossuridae, Maldanidae, Lumbrineridae, and Capitellidae were dominant during dredging. The species diversity index (H′) was slightly higher in E1 compared to E2. The NMDS showed differences in the ordination of the polychaetes community composition in at least one of the three seasons. In this study, the observed temporal variations in the polychaete community composition and the environmental variables were mostly driven by the natural disturbances associated with the river discharges and the dredging activities.
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Reyes-Rojas, J., Panesso-Guevara, M. & Duque, G. Influence of maintenance dredging on polychaete community composition in an estuary (Tropical Eastern Pacific). Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 20, 10621–10632 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-04722-7
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