Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment

Xiaoshou Liu; Siu Gin Cheung; Paul K. S. Shin

doi:10.1007/s00343-011-0144-1

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Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment

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- Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment
- Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment
- 海洋湖沼学报（英文） 2011年29卷第6期页码：1174-1185
- Affiliations：
  
  1. College of Marine Life Sciences Ocean University of China
  2. Department of Biology and Chemistry City University of Hong Kong Kowloon
  3. State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution City University of Hong Kong Kowloon
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  Supported by the Strategic Research Grant from City University of Hong Kong (No. 7002500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41006081, 40730847), and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of the Ministry of Education of China from Ocean University of China (No. 201013002)
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-011-0144-1
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- 网络首发：2011-10-25，
  
  纸质出版：2011
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Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2011,29(6):1174-1185.

Liu, X., Cheung, S.G. & Shin, P.K.S. Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 1174–1185 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-0144-1
Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2011,29(6):1174-1185. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-011-0144-1.

Liu, X., Cheung, S.G. & Shin, P.K.S. Response of meiofaunal and nematode communities to sewage pollution abatement: a field transplantation experiment., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 1174–1185 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-0144-1 DOI：

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Abstract

To assess the recovery rate of meiofaunal and nematode communities upon abatement of sewage pollution

a field transplantation experiment was conducted in Tai Tam

which is a non-polluted

shallow subtidal habitat on the southern portion of Hong Kong Island. The sediments used were from one site located in Victoria Harbour that was heavily influenced by sewage pollution

and one site in the outside-harbor area

which was relatively clean. In addition

sediments from Tai Tam were used as a control. Fresh sediments with meiofauna were collected from the aforementioned sites

placed in plastic trays and transplanted to Tai Tam. Sediments were retrieved at the beginning of the experiment and at 1-

and 8-weeks after transplantation for analysis of the meiofaunal and nematode communities as well as the sediment characteristics. The results showed that the meiofaunal and nematode communities in the control sediments were consistent at the four sampling periods

while it took three and eight weeks

respectively

for the nematode communities from the outside-harbor and inside-harbor sites to become similar to the control. These findings indicated that the relatively poor habitat quality and the nematode community composition in the sewage polluted inside-harbor sediments required a longer time for recovery than samples from the better habitat quality and the nematode community composition in the outside-harbor sediments.

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