Infaunal benthic communities from the inner shelf off southwestern Africa are characterised by generalist species

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dc.contributor.authorSteffani, Nina
dc.contributor.authorSedick, Safiyya
dc.contributor.authorRogers, John
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-08T08:19:31Z
dc.date.available2023-03-08T08:19:31Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractInfaunal communities of benthic macro-organisms ( 1mm length) were studied from 81 samples collected across nine sites to the north and south of the Orange River in the Benguela upwelling ecosystem in 2003, with a view to describing communities and understanding the drivers of regional community structure, as well as to document diversity and to examine geographic affinities. Although the fauna was dominated by polychaetes and peracarid crustaceans, patterns in community structure could only weakly be explained by the measured environment (~35%). This is attributed to the generalist nature of the species recovered, which were widely distributed amongst different sediments, water-depths and latitudes. The fauna is dominated by species that enjoy a widespread regional and global distribution and is characterised by relatively low diversity, which is discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSteffani, N. et al. (2015). Infaunal benthic communities from the inner shelf off southwestern Africa are characterised by generalist species. PLoS ONE, 10 (11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143637en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143637
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8549
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library Scienceen_US
dc.subjectBiodiversityen_US
dc.subjectConservationen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectFishingen_US
dc.titleInfaunal benthic communities from the inner shelf off southwestern Africa are characterised by generalist speciesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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