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• TITLE: Study on the Meiofauna Community Structure in Sajafi Shores as the Bio-Indicator of Environmental Pollution

  AUTHORS: Tahmineh Taheri Dezfouli, Seyed Mohammad Bagher Nabavi, Ebrahim Rajabzadeh Ghatromi, Nooshin Sajjadi

  KEYWORDS: Meiofauna, Benthic, Sajafi Area, Bio-Indicator, Persian Gulf

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Ecology, Vol.6 No.10, September 30, 2016

  ABSTRACT: In order to investigate the health of the coastal environments, we collected Meiofauna assemblages along intertidal muddy shores of Sajafi in the northwest of Persian Gulf in two seasons (February 2013 and July 2014) from three horizontal transects. Meiofauna are the metazoan components of the benthos, defined by their body size (' = 3.148) while the lowest value occurred in winter 2014 (H' = 1.5). At the same time, the highest and lowest values of Simpson index (λ) were 0.43 and 0.05 respectively. Sajafi area, according to the Welch model, has a moderate (H' = 1 - 3) to unpolluted (H' > 3) condition compared to neighboring regions.