The sandy beach meiofauna and free-living nematodes from De Panne (Belgium)

Despite their rather barren and arid appearance, European sandy beaches harbour a highly diverse fauna and flora and some of them are even highly productive. In contrast to tropical sandy beaches little is known about the structural and functional diversity of the different benthic components. This study aims to investigate the structural diversity of the meiobenthos, emphasizing on free-living marine nematodes on a Belgian sandy beach.The samples were collected on the sandy beach of De Panne in the swept prism, i.e. the zone between highest and lowest watermark, subjected to tidal inundation.... Mehr ...