… environmental features and contaminants than macrofauna. Overall… both meio- and macrofauna
communities, which could … and macrofaunal communities are regularly utilized in impact …

… pollutants from the surrounding basin do interfere with ecological balance in parts of the lake
thereby causing adverse impact … diversity and the level of pollution at different areas along …

… Overall, we found that bulk density had a strong effect on … habitat homogeneity decreases
the assemblage diversity, and … human activity from different land use, pollution, overfishing etc. …

… of sediment metal contamination in different habitat types in … the macrobenthic assemblage
was largely influenced by several … Factors affecting the distribution of benthic macrofauna in …

… The degree of macrofaunal impact corresponded with the severity … of macrofaunal metrics
addressed four alternative … ), dissolved oxygen (DO; mg l −1 ), and percent DO saturation were …

… effects of this disturbance were of the same order or less than … abundance of the fish
assemblage, the anchovy Engraulis … bioavailability of contaminants during sediment disturbance …

… Vardah on the assemblage pattern and the functioning of intertidal soft-bottom macrofauna.
… and a pioneer in the field of marine benthic ecology and coastal pollution research in India. …

… by various human influences, such as pollution associated with … , at the same time indicating
its high resilience. Elevated … burrowing activities of macrofauna. Macrobenthic organisms …

… parasites are as good indicators of the effect of oil pollution as … , we hypothesized that BTA
should detect at least the same … detected parasite assemblage differences in the Caribbean. …

… of the benthic macrofauna was influenced by salinity and … Spatial distribution and assemblage
structure of macrobenthic … Similar abundance to that found in the present investigation …