Short communication: Using polychaetes as an assessment tool for health status of Jafari Creek, north-west of the Persian Gulf

Marine ecosystems and their adjacent coastal habitats, especially estuaries are important because of maintaining the coastal biota, including a diverse array of organisms. However, these ecosystems are being impacted by the anthropogenic activities through urbanization and industrialization developments. For evaluating the degree of alteration occurring in these valuable ecosystems, scientists have conducted several methodologies based on chemical assays (i.e. directly measured abiotic parameters of the environment) and use of ecological indices. ... In this regard, the present paper was prepared to evaluate the health status of Jafari Creek using polychaetes as indicators and to compare the results with the previous evaluation which had been done through tracing the spatial distribution of the whole macrobenthic assemblages and chemical assay of the ambient factors in this area. Accordingly, the primary objective of this research is to introduce the status of polychaetes assemblage of Jafari Creek and furthermore provide answer to this question if analysis of the polychaete fraction of the macrobenthic community of the creek can be a useful key in interpretation of the effects of industrialization.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Mooraki, N.
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Biology, Environment, Pollution, Anthropogenic activities, Bioindicators, Polychaetes, Persian Gulf, Pollution detection, Ecology, Iran,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/37588
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