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The Meiofauna off the Coast of Northumberland I. The Structure of The Nematode Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. M. Warwick  and
J. B. Buchanan
R. M. Warwick
Affiliation:
Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, Northumberland
J. B. Buchanan
Affiliation:
Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, Northumberland
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Although nematodes form the dominant meiofaunal group in almost all marine sediments, ecological investigations have been confined mainly to littoral or shallow water habitats. Among these studies may be included those of Wieser (1959), Gerlach (1953, 1954), Capstick (1959), King (1962), Rie-mann (1966) and Hopper & Meyers (1967). The qualitative distribution of the nematode fauna of various types of substrates in Kiel Bay and from the Chilean Coast have been discussed by Gerlach (1958) and Wieser (1959a). The only work which contains both qualitative and quantitative data from offshore substrates is that of Wieser (1960), which concerns the shallow sediments (12–30 m) in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, and contains a review of the purely quantitative results of previous authors.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 129 - 146
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1970

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