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Relationships between shallow-water cumacean assemblages and sediment characteristics facing the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2009

Daniel Martin ,
Ulla Fernadez-Arcaya ,
Paula Tirado ,
Éric Dutrieux  and
Jordi Corbera
Daniel Martin*
Affiliation:
Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Carrer d'Accés a la Cala Sant Francesc, 14, 17300 Blanes (Girona), Catalunya (Spain)
Ulla Fernadez-Arcaya
Affiliation:
Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Carrer d'Accés a la Cala Sant Francesc, 14, 17300 Blanes (Girona), Catalunya (Spain)
Paula Tirado
Affiliation:
Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Carrer d'Accés a la Cala Sant Francesc, 14, 17300 Blanes (Girona), Catalunya (Spain)
Éric Dutrieux
Affiliation:
CRÉOCÉAN, 39 rue Jean Giroux, Parc Euromédecine II, 34080 Montpellier, France
Jordi Corbera
Affiliation:
Carrer Gran, 90, 08310 Argentona, Catalunya, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: D. Martin, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Carrer d'Accés a la Cala Sant Francesc, 14, 17300 Blanes (Girona), Catalunya (Spain) email: [email protected]
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Abstract

During two sampling campaigns carried out in August 1998 and November 2002, 232 cumaeans from eight species belonging to the families Bodotriidae and Nannastacidae were collected. This paper presents the first ecological data on a shallow water tropical cumacean assemblage from the Persian Gulf, where 50% of the existing species were recently described as new for the science. Neither the environmental conditions (except for the sediment organic content) nor the cumacean assemblage descriptors differed between the two sampling periods. However, two different species dominated in each period (i.e. Eocuma travancoricum and Heterocuma inerme in 1998 and 2002, respectively) and the MDS analysis revealed differences in the assemblage composition between periods, particularly for the deepest sampling stations. An increasing density together with the increase in gravel content, and a decreasing density together with the increasing silt content characterized the distribution pattern of both the whole cumacean assemblages and the two dominant species, the latter being also positively correlated with the mean grain size and negatively correlated with depth and organic matter (E. travancoricum) and with depth (H. inerme).

Keywords

Tropicalshallow waterscumacean assemblagessediment characteristicsPersian Gulf
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 125 - 134
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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