Study of diversity and distribution of ‎Polychaetes (Annelida: Polychaeta) in ‎Qeshm Island and the effect of ‎desalination plant effluent on them

Gafari, Samarghand; Nabavi, Seyed Mohammad Bagher; Doustshenas, Babak; Sakhaei, Nasrin; Ranjbar, Sharif

doi:10.30473/eab.2019.47573.1729

Document Type : Article

Authors

¹ M.A., Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine ‎Science, Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and ‎Technology, Khorramshahr University of Science and ‎Technology, Khuzestan Province, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of ‎Marine Science, Khorramshahr University of Marine Science ‎and Technology, Khorramshahr, Khuzestan Province, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department Marine Biology, Faculty of ‎Marine Science, Hormozgan University, Hormozgan Province, ‎Iran

https://doi.org/10.30473/eab.2019.47573.1729

Abstract

The present study was carried out to investigate the diversity and distribution of the Polychaeta species in the Qeshm Island and the effect of desalination plants on their communities. The desalination plants provide a large portion of Qeshm Island drinking water. So, their waste waters could effect on environment especially benthic animals near the coastline. Substrate sampling was carried out in summer and winter 2014 from 9 stations. Station 1 was situated near (desalination site) with the highest temperature and salinity in both summer and winter season, which shows the effects of drainage waste water on environment condition. The substrates of the most stations were silt-clay. At the stations 4 and 5, which sediments included more silt and clay, organic matters were higher than other stations. In this study 49 genera and species were identified. There was a significant negative correlation between the polychaetes abundances and sediment content of silt and clay observed. The higher abundances of polychaetes were found in the stations with lower content of organic matters and greater grain size sediments. The genera Cossura sp. and Scoloplos simplex which related to Cossuridae and Orbiniidae families respectively were dominant specimens. The lowest level of diversity was estimated in station 1. Diversity and dominance indices at stations near the wastewater outlet showed significant differ in both seasons (P<0.05). Finally, it seems that desalination plant may affects adversely on species diversity by increasing of temperature and salinity in short distances.

Keywords

20.1001.1.23222387.1399.9.2.8.3

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Study of diversity and distribution of ‎Polychaetes (Annelida: Polychaeta) in ‎Qeshm Island and the effect of ‎desalination plant effluent on them

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Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34
November 2020
Pages 97-106

Study of diversity and distribution of ‎Polychaetes (Annelida: Polychaeta) in ‎Qeshm Island and the effect of ‎desalination plant effluent on them

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Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34November 2020Pages 97-106

Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34
November 2020
Pages 97-106