Community structure and spatial distribution of macrobenthos in the shelf area of the Bering Sea

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摘要 FieldinvestigationsofmarinemacrobenthoswereconductedattensitesintheBeringSeainJuly2010.Altogether90speciesofmacrobenthosbelongingto59familiesand78generawereidentified.Amongthem,41polychaetes,16mollusks,23crustaceans,threeechinoderms,twocnidarians,onenemertean,onepriapulid,twosipunculids,andoneechiuranwereidentified.Theaveragedensityandbiomassoftotalmacrobenthoswere984ind./m2and1207.1g/m2ofwetweight,respectively.ThepredominantspeciesinthestudyareawereScoloplosarmiger,Eudorellapacifica,Ophiurasarsii,Heteromastusfiliformis,Ennuculatenuis,andHarpiniopsisvadiculusbyabundance,whilethepredominantspeciesinthisareawasEchinarachniusparmabybiomass.Hierarchicalclusteranalysis(Bray–Curtissimilaritymeasure)revealedthattwoimportantbenthicassemblagesinthestudyareawereCommunityAandCommunityB.CommunityAwasstableandCommunityBwasunstable,asshownbytheAbundance/BiomassComparisons(ABC)approach.ThemacrobenthiccommunitystructureintheshelfoftheBeringSeawascharacterizedbyitshighabundanceandbiomass,highproductivitybutgreatheterogeneity.
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出处 《海洋学报:英文版》 2014年6期
出版日期 2014年06月16日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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