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Benthic fauna around Mauritius island, southwest Indian Ocean

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Title Benthic fauna around Mauritius island, southwest Indian Ocean
 
Creator Ingole, B.S.
Ansari, Z.A.
Parulekar, A.H.
 
Description Distribution of benthic fauna in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Mauritius was studied during September-October 1987. Mean faunal density (macro+meio) and dry weight biomass was 10848 no.m/2 and 228.8 mg.m/2, respectively. The macrofauna was dominatEd. by polychaetes (52%), bivalves (13.7%) and isopods (12.3%). Among other groups ophiuroids, amphipods and tanaidaceans were important. Meiofauna was dominatEd. by nematodes (53.6%) and harpacticoids (15.9%) and occurred at all the depths. Over 60% of the fauna was concentrated in the top 4 cm depth of the sediment. Benthic biomass showed a general decline with an increase of water depth, and correlated positively with the chl-a of the surface water. The macro:meiofaunal biomass ratio indicated dominance of meiofauna in the deeper waters
 
Date 2009-05-08T08:57:33Z
2009-05-08T08:57:33Z
1992
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, Vol.21; 268-273p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2950
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1992]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher NISCAIR, New Delhi