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Macrobenthic Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean Continental Shelf
Author(s) -
Galil B.,
Lewinsohn Ch.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
marine ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.668
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1439-0485
pISSN - 0173-9565
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1981.tb00276.x
Subject(s) - continental shelf , dendrogram , oceanography , community structure , mediterranean climate , geography , invertebrate , mediterranean sea , macrobenthos , ecology , fishery , geology , biology , benthic zone , archaeology , population , demography , sociology , genetic diversity
. 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.