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The polychaete feeding guild composition in the Sishili Bay, the northern Yellow Sea, China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2015

Qingxi Han ,
Xiamin Jiang  and
Xiaobo Wang
Qingxi Han*
Affiliation:
School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 315211, PR China
Xiamin Jiang
Affiliation:
School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 315211, PR China
Xiaobo Wang
Affiliation:
Marine Environmental Monitoring Center of Ningbo, SOA, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 315012, PR China
*
Correspondence should be addressed to:Qingxi Han, School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 315211, PR China email: hanqingxi@nbu.edu.cn
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Abstract

In this research, the feeding guild composition of the polychaete community was described and analysed in the northern Yellow Sea, China. The polychaete feeding guilds also showed a distinct seasonal abundance fluctuation that was similar to that observed for macrofauna. Burrowers were the most predominant feeding guild, whereas filter feeders and herbivores only constituted a negligible proportion of the total abundance. A Spearman rank correlation was performed to analyse the relationships between the feeding guilds and the environmental parameters. Surface deposit feeders and carnivores appeared to be vulnerable to variations of environmental conditions. However, burrowers and filter feeders were not susceptible to the natural or anthropogenic disturbances, with grain size determined to be the only conclusive factor. These results revealed that the feeding guild of polychaetes showed significant spatial and temporal changes, and spatial heterogeneity was a stronger predictor than temporal variation. The feeding guilds of polychaetes can be applied alone to discern the environmental change, which would be faster and more cost-effective with best equilibrium between the precision of the results and a decrease in taxonomic effort. Furthermore, bimonthly sampling was proved to be unessential and reduction of the sampling frequency was necessary to save expense and effort.

Keywords

Polychaetesfeeding guildenvironmental factorgrain sizeYellow Sea
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 96 , Issue 5 , August 2016 , pp. 1083 - 1092
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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