TY - JOUR ID - TI - Freeliving marine nematodes as a pollution indicator of Bohai Sea AU - GUO Yu-qing AU - R. M. Warwick AU - ZHANG Zhi-Nan AU - MU Fang-hong VL - 14 IS - 4 PB - SP - 558 EP - 562 PY - JF - Journal of Environmental Sciences JA - J. Environ. Sci. UR - http://www.jesc.ac.cn/jesc_en/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=20020420&flag=1 KW - taxonomic distinctness index △+; freeliving marine nematodes; Bohai Sea KW - taxonomic distinctness index △+; freeliving marine nematodes; Bohai Sea AB - A hierarchical diversity index--taxonomic distinctnessindex △+, which was first defined by Warwick and Clark in 1998, wasemployed to evaluate the pollution status of the Bohai Sea withfreeliving marine nematodes. The result showed that the Bohai Bayand other coastal sampling sites might be affected by oil and gasproduction and other anthropogenic influences. In other words,anthropogenic disturbance was affecting this component of thebenthos in these locations. And most offshore sampling sites in themiddle of the Bohai Sea were clear and unpolluted. ER -