Table 2 Density of the meiofauna taxa at the different sampling sites in the 1–10 cm layers of sediment mean abundance
Taxon | Westerschelde | Knokke-Heist | Heist | De Panne | Audresselles | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
W 1 | W 2 | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |||
M | SD | M | SD | |||||||||
Nematoda | 4116.3 | 805 | 2187.0 | 1,050 | 747.7 | 133 | 395.8 | 314 | 866.3 | 285 | 235.0 | 116 |
Harpacticoida | 3.7 | 2 | 6.7 | 2 | 384.0 | 226 | 92.8 | 19 | 9.7 | 5 | 33.7 | 18 |
Turbellaria | 94.0 | 50 | 15.7 | 11 | 55.7 | 28 | 214.7 | 11 | 125.7 | 47 | 69.0 | 41 |
Ostracoda | 61.3 | 40 | 129.7 | 61 | 0.3 | 1 | 28.3 | 42 | – | – | – | – |
Tardigrada | 0.3 | 1 | – | – | 39.0 | 21 | 0.2 | 0 | 2.7 | 3 | 4.3 | 8 |
Gastrotricha | 12.7 | 9 | 1.3 | 2 | 9.0 | 3 | 1.8 | 1 | 2.7 | 1 | – | – |
Copepoda nauplii | 1.0 | 1 | – | – | 23.3 | 5 | 11.8 | 10 | 0.7 | 1 | 1.0 | 2 |
Oligochaeta | 5.0 | 3 | 2.0 | 2 | 8.3 | 5 | 0.7 | 0 | 4.3 | 3 | 2.0 | 3 |
Bivalvia | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Polychaeta | 0.7 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 63.0 | 36 | – | – | 16.0 | 16 |
Halacaroidea | – | – | – | – | 0.3 | 1 | 59.2 | 100 | – | – | – | – |
Total | 4295.3 | Â | 2342.7 | Â | 1267.7 | Â | 868.3 | Â | 1012.0 | Â | 361.0 | Â |