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Effect of the Razdol’naya River on structure of the free-living nematode community of the Amursky Bay, Sea of Japan

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The effect of the Razdol’naya River on the littoral and sublittoral nematode community was studied in the innermost part of the Amursky Bay. Thanks to the seasonal abundance of juveniles of macrobenthic animals, pseudomacrobenthic species prevailed in the meiobenthos littoral community. Juvenile amphipods dominated (39.5%), the percentage of nematodes was 18.4% (45 species). The nematodes dominated in the meiobenthos community (65.7%, 71 species) at the sublittoral zone. The similarity of the species structure of littoral and sublittoral nematodes reached 36.5%. Low population density (2.6±1.7 thousand ind/m2) and poor species diversity of nematodes (7 species), the dominating form being Oncholaimium paraolium, were recorded at the littoral zone, which was subjected to direct riverine influence (1‰salinity). The correlation analysis revealed no relationship between salinity and population density of nematodes at the littoral zone. At the sublittoral zone (at stations of salinity less than 2.85‰) the parameters of population density (73.9±32.3 thousand ind/m2) and species diversity (12 species) of nematodes were the lowest, Parodontophora timmica dominated. A poor expressed dependence between the density of nematode populations and salinity was revealed. The correlation between the average size of ground particles and population density of nematodes was recorded. The greatest similarity of the species structure of littoral and sublittoral nematodes (26.67%) was recorded on gravel-sand bottoms.

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Original Russian Text © O.N. Pavlyuk, Yu.A. Trebukhova, L.S. Belogurova, 2007, published in Biologiya Morya.

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Pavlyuk, O.N., Trebukhova, Y.A. & Belogurova, L.S. Effect of the Razdol’naya River on structure of the free-living nematode community of the Amursky Bay, Sea of Japan. Russ J Mar Biol 33, 213–221 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074007040025

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