An approach to detecting species diversity of microfaunas in colonization surveys for marine bioassessment based on rarefaction curves

Xu, Guangjian; Zhong, Xiaoxiao; Wang, Yangfan; Xu, Henglong

An approach to detecting species diversity of microfaunas in colonization surveys for marine bioassessment based on rarefaction curves

2014

Xu, Guangjian | Zhong, Xiaoxiao | Wang, Yangfan | Xu, Henglong

The objective of this study was to measure α-, β- and γ-diversity of microfaunas with different ages in colonization surveys using rarefaction-modeling methods. A dataset was complied based on a microperiphyton survey in coastal waters of the Yellow Sea, near Qingdao. The analyses showed that: (1) there was a strong residual influence of sampling effort on β- and γ-diversity after rarefaction, especially for the young communities; (2) the rarefaction curves were well fitted to the Michaelis–Menten equation, and allow modeling and removing the residual influence of sampling effort on β- and γ-diversity; and (3) the estimated values of α-, β- and γ-diversity of a community based on the rarefaction-modeling method were independent of the influence of sampling effort. The results suggest that this approach may be used as a feasible tool to detect α-, β- and γ-diversity without the influence of sampling effort in microfauna colonization surveys for marine bioassessment.

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