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Nematode species abundance patterns and their use in the detection of environmental perturbations
Platt, H.M.; Shaw, K.M.; Lambshead, P.J.D. (1984). Nematode species abundance patterns and their use in the detection of environmental perturbations, in: Heip, C.H.R. (Ed.) Biology of Meiofauna. Proceedings of the Fifth International Meiofauna Conference, held in Ghent, Belgium 16-20 August 1983. Developments in Hydrobiology, 26: pp. 59-66
In: Heip, C.H.R. (Ed.) (1984). Biology of Meiofauna: Proceedings of the Fifth International Meiofauna Conference, held in Ghent, Belgium 16-20 August 1983. Developments in Hydrobiology, 26. Dr. W. Junk Publishers: Dordrecht. ISBN 978-9061935131. IX, 133 pp., meer
In: Dumont, H.J. (Ed.) Developments in Hydrobiology. Kluwer Academic/Springer: The Hague; London; Boston; Dordrecht. ISSN 0167-8418, meer

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Documenttype: Congresbijdrage

Trefwoorden
    Aquatic communities > Benthos
    Ecosystem disturbance
    Environments > Aquatic environment > Marine environment
    Monitoring > Environmental monitoring
    Species diversity
    Taxa > Species > Indicator species
    Nematoda [WoRMS]; Nematoda [WoRMS]
    Marien/Kust

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  • Platt, H.M.
  • Shaw, K.M.
  • Lambshead, P.J.D., meer

Abstract
    If the concepts of biological indices and biomonitoring at the multi-species level are to prove viable, then meiofauna and marine nematodes in particular should be an ideal group with which to test the hypothesis. Many attempts to assess the structure of species assemblages, such as the use of diversity indices, nematode: copepod ratiso and the graphical method of log normal plots, have been shown to be theoretically unsound and/or impractical, especially for routine use by extension workers. A method of assessing shifts in dominance paterns which involves all the proportional species abundances is suggested as a better means of comparing diversity. A modified method of rapidly assessing Simpson's dominance-weighted diversity index is also advocated as being of practical use. In combination, they should enable the diversity aspect of the multi-species approach to biomonitoring to be rigorously and exhaustively evaluated.

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