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Congruency analysis to determine potential surrogates of littoral macroinvertebrate communities: a case study in intertidal ecosystems of northern Yellow Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2012

Guangjian Xu ,
Yulian Li ,
Chongbo He  and
Henglong Xu
Guangjian Xu
Affiliation:
College of Fisheries and Life Science, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Province, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian 116023, China Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
Yulian Li
Affiliation:
Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China Normal College, Qingdao University, Qingdao 26671, China
Chongbo He*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Province, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian 116023, China
Henglong Xu
Affiliation:
Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: C. He, Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian 116023, China email: [email protected]
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Abstract

To determine potential surrogates of littoral macroinvertebrate communities for marine bioassessment and for evaluating biological conservation, the different taxonomic resolutions as surrogates were studied based on six datasets collected from intertidal zones of the Yellow Sea, near Qingdao, northern China, during the period of 1989–1998. Samples were collected yearly at five stations with different bottom types during the summer season (June). The genus- and family-level resolutions maintained sufficient information to analyse the ecological patterns of the macroinvertebrate communities for assessing ecological quality status in littoral ecosystems. The mollusc assemblages, alone or in combination with arthropod assemblages, may be used as a surrogate of littoral macroinvertebrate communities, at both species- and genus-level resolutions. The results suggest that the use of simplifications in macroinvertebrate fauna at genus-level resolutions or using smaller taxonomic assemblages (e.g. molluscs and arthropods) are time-efficient and would allow improving sampling strategies of large spatial/temporal scale bioassessment programmes and biological conservation researches in littoral ecosystems.

Keywords

bioassessmentintertidal ecosystemmacroinvertebratesurrogatetaxonomic sufficiency
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 601 - 609
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012

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