Suprabentos en el estuario del río Mondego
For this paper we studied the suprabenthos distribution in the Mondego estuary's southern arm. Samples were taken monthly at two stations from October 1999 to May 2000. The collections were made during high spring tides, using a suprabenthic net mounted on a sledge (40 cm diameter, 500 mm mesh)...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2003 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/320100 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/320100 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Medio Marino Suprabentos Estuarios río Mondego |
| Sumario: | For this paper we studied the suprabenthos distribution in the Mondego estuary's southern arm. Samples were taken monthly at two stations from October 1999 to May 2000. The collections were made during high spring tides, using a suprabenthic net mounted on a sledge (40 cm diameter, 500 mm mesh) in suprabenthic tows. Mollusca and Crustacea, especially Mysidacea, dominated the suprabenthos. Other important groups were the Copepoda, Isopoda, eggs and post larvae of Pisces, and larval stages of Decapoda. The high densities of Hydrobia ulvae (Pennant, 1777) post-larvae caught in the downstream station, which decreased species evenness due to the dominance of this species, led to a spatial diversity pattern with higher diversities in the upstream area. The mysid species Mesopodopsis slabberi (Van Beneden, 1861), together with the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa (Dana, 1848), dominated in the upstream area. Significant differences were found in community structure between the two selected areas of the estuary, with a dominance of the spatial structure in the cluster analysis. |
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