TITLE:
Study on the Meiofauna Community Structure in Sajafi Shores as the Bio-Indicator of Environmental Pollution
AUTHORS:
Tahmineh Taheri Dezfouli, Seyed Mohammad Bagher Nabavi, Ebrahim Rajabzadeh Ghatromi, Nooshin Sajjadi
KEYWORDS:
Meiofauna, Benthic, Sajafi Area, Bio-Indicator, Persian Gulf
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ecology,
Vol.6 No.10,
September
30,
2016
ABSTRACT: In order
to investigate the health of the coastal environments, we collected Meiofauna assemblages
along intertidal muddy shores of Sajafi in the northwest of Persian Gulf in two
seasons (February 2013 and July 2014) from three horizontal transects. Meiofauna
are the metazoan components of the benthos, defined by their body size (' = 3.148) while the lowest value
occurred in winter 2014 (H' = 1.5).
At the same time, the highest and lowest values of Simpson index (λ) were 0.43 and 0.05 respectively. Sajafi
area, according to the Welch model, has a moderate (H' = 1 - 3) to unpolluted (H' > 3) condition compared to neighboring regions.