| Biodiversity of marine benthic communities along ecological gradients |
Dutch title: Biodiversiteit van marine benthische gemeenschappen langsheen ecologische gradiënten
Funder identifier: P102/12050398 (Other contract id)
Period: January 1998 till December 2005
Status: Completed
Thesaurus terms Benthic communities; Benthos; Biodiversity; Food webs; Marine biology
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| Institutes (2) |
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- Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more
- Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Protistologie en Aquatische Ecologie (PAE), more
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| Abstract |
Objectives are
- To contribute to the inventarisation of the global biodiversity of marine benthic communities, including microbenthos, meiobenthos, macrobenthos, hyperbenthos and epibenthos.
- To investigate patterns in marine benthic biodiversity on different spatial scales along several ecological gradients.
- To investigate the relationships between biodiversity and various measures of system productivity and other environmental factors along several ecological gradients.
- To determine the partitioning of biodiversity between the different benthic compartments.
- To determine the relationship between food-web structure and biodiverisity of the benthos.
- To identify indicator taxa (species or species groups) to be used as target organisms (or groups of organisms) for comparision of global patterns of biodiversity.
- To investigate the relationship between phenotypical and genotypical of micro- and meiobenthic indicator taxa.
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