Comparison of Goitre and Tang estuaries with respect to diversity and dominance of macrofauna
Goitre and Tang are important estuaries in the Systan and Baluchistan province and according to their freshwater sources arc divided into two different classes. Goitre is flushed with water from Bahoukalat freshwater river during high tide of the Oman Sea but Tang receives its water from the catchment area only in some month of the year (mostly December and January). Dense mangrove cover Goitre estuary causes the T. O. M. of sediments to be higher than the other one. A comparison between several similar sites in these estuaries has shown that diversity of macrofauna in Tang is greater than Goitre. Also dominant fauna in these estuaries are different and it was demonstrated that we could establish a significant relationship between dominance and diameter of particles in the sediment.
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | Persian |
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1993
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| Subjects: | Ecology, Fisheries, Sediments, Comparison, Goitre, Freshwater, Tang, Diversity, Macrofauna, Systan and Baluchistan province, Oman Sea, Iran, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/38268 |
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| Summary: | Goitre and Tang are important estuaries in the Systan and Baluchistan province and according to their freshwater sources arc divided into two different classes. Goitre is flushed with water from Bahoukalat freshwater river during high tide of the Oman Sea but Tang receives its water from the catchment area only in some month of the year (mostly December and January). Dense mangrove cover Goitre estuary causes the T. O. M. of sediments to be higher than the other one. A comparison between several similar sites in these estuaries has shown that diversity of macrofauna in Tang is greater than Goitre. Also dominant fauna in these estuaries are different and it was demonstrated that we could establish a significant relationship between dominance and diameter of particles in the sediment. |
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