Macrobenthic Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean Continental Shelf |
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Authors: | B. Galil Ch. Lewinsohn |
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Affiliation: | The George S. Wise Center for Life Sciences, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Abstract: | Abstract. The results of a year long study in which soft-bottom epibenthic invertebrates were collected by grab, dredge and beam-trawl, along the southern Mediterranean coast of Israel, are described in this paper. The classificatory analysis used for both normal and inverse analyses used two measures of dissimilarity - Canberra metric and Bray-Curtis, and both group-average and nearest-neighbour clustering. The results were displayed as dendrograms. Four site groups and five species groups characterised a total of 58 site samples and 245 species. The prominent species in each of the five species groups are mentioned. The applicability of "community concepts" and the effects of sediment properties on community structure are discussed. |
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Keywords: | benthos Mediterranean assemblage numerical analysis dendrogram |
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