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ECOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON MARINE NEMATODES FROM A SMALL SALT MARSH NEAR WOODS HOLE, MASSACHUSETTS 1
Author(s) -
Wieser Wolfgang,
Kanwisher John
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1961.6.3.0262
Subject(s) - meiobenthos , salt marsh , ecology , respiration , biology , oceanography , environmental science , botany , geology , fauna
Some physiological experiments have been performed on some marine nematodes from a soft‐bottom community where they are numerically the most abundant group of the meiofauna. They appear to account for a quarter to a third of the biological activity in such a bottom. Different types of the same size show a three times variation in rate of O 2 uptake. A correlation seems to exist between respiration rate and feeding type.