Ouided Maamcha

• Biodiversity Journal, 13 (3): 0695-0706

  Hiba Rezzag Mahcene, Mohamed Said Ramdani, Abdelhak Sebbih, Tarik Meziane, Françoise Denis, Ouided Maamcha, Patrick Georges Thiery Moanono & Tarek Daas
  Diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates in the Algerian East Coast
  https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2022.13.3.695.706

  ABSTRACT
  Marine biodiversity play a fundamental role in the ecology and functioning of benthic communities. The study of the structure of benthic macroinvertebrate peoples is an excellent tool for evaluating the impact of human activities on the ecological quality of lotic environments. However, little data is available on the diversity, structure and ecology of benthic macroinvertebrates of the Algerian east coast. The main purpose of this work is to present an inventory of the current faunistic data general at three sites of study in Algerian east coastline: El-Kala, Annaba and Skikda. After doing the morphometric analysis of all the individuals, this study allowed to the identification of several species of macroinvertebrates. The variations in the distribution of these macroinvertebrates at different sites are related to external factors (temperature, salinity, dissolved O₂), that would have an impact on the abundance of the species of marine fauna of the Algerian east coastline.

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