ArticleEcology and evolution2026
Variation in Meiofaunal Abundance and Composition Across an Estuarine Bay: Do They Comprise a Coherent and Distinct Entity Displaying Contrasting Patterns to the Macrofauna?
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Patterns of meiofaunal distribution, abundance and composition were investigated across the disparate regions of the warm-temperate Knysna estuarine bay, South Africa's premier site for estuarine biodiversity and conservation. This locality was represented by five seagrass and five adjacent bare-sediment sites for which earlier data on the equivalent macrofaunal patterns were available. Thus it was possible to compare meiofaunal and macrofaunal responses to the same suite of contrasting habitats. Nematodes, copepods and ostracods, totalling 95.7% of numbers, dominated the Knysna epibenthic meiofauna which showed low (but not necessarily locally atypical) abundance: per core sample values of 19-886 (mean 211) ind. 10 cm
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