Meiofauna at a tropical sandy beach in the SW Atlantic: the influence of seasonality on diversity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sandy beaches are dynamic environments housing a large diversity of organisms and providing important environmental services. Meiofaunal metazoan are small organisms that play a key role in the sediment. Their diversity, distribution and composition are driven by sedimentary and oceanographic parameters. Understanding the diversity patterns of marine meiofauna is critical in a changing world.

Methods

In this study, we investigate if there is seasonal difference in meiofaunal assemblage composition and diversity along 1 year and if the marine seascapes dynamics (water masses with particular biogeochemical features, characterized by temperature, salinity, absolute dynamic topography, chromophoric dissolved organic material, chlorophyll-a, and normalized fluorescent

SUBMITTER: Coppo GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11249015 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature