PSAMMONALIA
Newsletter of the International Association of Meiobenthologists
Number 119, February 1998
Number 119, February 1998
Composed and Printed at The University of Gent, Department of Morphology
- Systematics and Ecology, Marine Biology Section, K.L. Ledeganckstr. 35,
B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
Executive Committee
Magda Vincx, Chairperson,
Ann Vanreusel, Treasurer,
Paul A. Montagna, Past Chairperson, Marine Science Institute,
University of Texas at Port Aransas, P.O. Box 1267, Port Aransas TX 78373,
USA
Robert Feller, Assistant Treasurer and Past Treasurer, Belle
Baruch Institute for Marine Science and Coastal Research, University of
South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208, USA
Gunter Arlt, Term Expires 2001, Rostock University, Department.of
Biology, Rostock D18051, GERMANY
Teresa Radziejewska, Term Expires 1998, Interoceanmetal Joint
Organization, ul. Cyryla I Metodego 9, 71-541 Szczecin, POLAND
Yoshihisa Shirayama, Term Expires 1998, Ocean Research Institute,
University of Tokyo, 1-15-1 Minamidai, Nakano-Ku, Tokyo 164, JAPAN
James Ward, Term Expires 1998, Department of Biology, Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA
Ex-Officio Executive Committee (Past Chairpersons)
Robert P. Higgins, Founding Editor, 1966-67
W. Duane Hope 1968-69
John S. Gray 1970-71
Wilfried Westheide 1972-73
Bruce C. Coull 1974-75
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant 1976-77
William D. Hummon 1978-79
Robert P. Higgins 1980-81
Carlo Heip 1982-83
Olav Giere 1984-86
John W. Fleeger 1987-89
Richard M. Warwick 1990-92
Paul A. Montagna 1993-1995
Board of Correspondents
Bruce Coull, Belle Baruch Institute for Marine Science and Coastal
Research, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Dan Danielopol, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Limnology,
A-5310 Mondsee, Gaisberg 116, Austria
Roberto Danovaro, Facolta de Scienze, Universita di Ancona,
ITALY
Nicole Gourbault, Museum Nat. Hist. Nat., Bim - 57 rue Curie,
Paris, 75231 Paris 5, FRANCE
Andrew Gooday, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley,
Godalming, Surrey, GU8 5UB, UK
Duane Hope, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum
Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
Tom Moens, University of Gent, Marine Biology Section, K.L.
Ledeganckstr. 35, B-9000 Gent, BELGIUM
Alex V. Tchesunov, Dept. Invertebrate Zoology, Biology Faculty,
Moscow Lomonosov State Univ., Moscow 119899, RUSSIA
Zhang Zhinan, Department of Marine Biology, Ocean University
of Qindgao, Qingdao, Shangdong, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA
You may make your donations to the Bertil Swedmark Fund directly to the IAM bank account (account number 6586667) of the Lloyds Bank (Sort code 30-96-68), 8 Royale Parade Plymouth PL1 1HB, UK.
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Even in late February I take the opportunity to send my best wishes for 1998 to all meiobenthologists. I hope that we will have a very productive year (in terms of publications) and a very interesting and nice meiofauna meeting this summer.
Perhaps most of you have noticed earlier that my editorials are either lacking or very short. I will use this forum now to stress the illness of time which is the hugh amount of work pressure on all scientists, not only on the ones involved in meiofauna work. Nevertheless, I hope we can use the opportunity this summer in Plymouth to chat more about science but also to keep our warm personal contacts alive.
This newsletter is despite the good friendship which exists between meiobenthologists, still too much a newsletter of mainly science. I would like to see a broader response on more 'personal' issues, about interesting journeys, Ph.D. defences, informal meetings of people..
See you this summer !
Magda Vincx
Bertil Swedmark Fund. Statement of Accounts to 31st December 1997.
This fund was originated from a bequest of £1000 from Dr. Bertil Swedmark, to encourage the study of meiofauna amongst students. However, the money was held within the general IAM funds until 1993 when the treasury was handed over from Plymouth to South Carolina. The money is held in the IAM Account Number 6586667 of Lloyds Bank (Sort code 30-96-68), 8 Royal Parade, Plymouth, PL1 1HB, UK. The account opened in October 1993 with the original £1000 and a sum of money donated by the organizers and participants of the Maryland Conference. The accounts to December 31st1997 are as follows:
| Capital (£) | Interest (£) | Total (£) | |
| Oct. - Dec. 1993 | 1267.06 | 5.03 | 1272.09 |
| Jan. - Dec. 1994 | 125.01 | 38.95 | 163.96 |
| Jan. - Dec.1995 | 388.17 | 54.39 | 442.56 |
| Jan. - Dec. 1996 | 710.65 | 47.78 | 758.43 |
| Jan. - Dec. 1997 | - | 71.33 | 71.33 |
| TOTAL | 2490.89 | 217.48 | 2708.37 |
Reports of the treasurers
The Belgian treasurer received 16 697 BEF (about 440 US $) from
membership dues in 1997. We spended however 64 184 BEF (1690 US $)
to produce the issues 115 to 118. About 50 % of this costs were made to
multiply the issues and the other 50 % to distribute the numbers by mail.
Since we started with 5.200 BEF left from 1996 and we also received
52.436 BEF from the American treasurer, the capital left on our Belgian
account amounts 10 149 BEF (267 US $) . We received about 1 600 BEF (42
US$) as donations for the Swedmark Fund which are not yet incorporated
in the former table.
Ann Vanreusel
The U.S. Assistant Treasurer received dues payments from 31 members
during 1997 totaling $630. Expenditures included postage ($100) and
transmittal of $1,500 to the Treasurer for production costs of Psammonalia.
A total of $40 from 3 members was donated to the Swedmark Fund. This
left a balance on 31 December 1997 of $3,581.39.
Robert J. Feller
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NEWS FROM MEMBERS
Congratulations
We would like to express our congratulations to the following meiobenthologists for the accomplishment of their PhD research:
Sandra Vanhove, 1997. Antartic sublittoral meiofauna: focus on the ecology of free-living marine nematodes. University of Gent, Marine Biology Section, Belgium.
Simon G.M. Ndaro, 1998. Ecological aspects of soft bottom meiofauna in Eastern Africa. University of Stockholm, Department of Zoology, Sweden.
Meiofauna and pollution research in Cuba
I'm working on the spatial and temporal distribution of meiofaunal communities and its relationships with the environment physicochemical parameters in estuariene and marine ecosystems of shallow waters around Cuba. The main interest of my work is to study the free-living marine nematodes in different environments and its relationships with pollution.
Cecilia López-Cánovas
Santovenia No 136
e/ Patria y Lindero
Cerro, CP 10600
C. Habana
CUBA
e-mail: anam@cneuro.edu.cu
Address changes
Joan Bernhard
Dept. Environ. Health Sciences
Univ. South Carolina
Columbia SC 29033
USA
Dietrich Blome
Institut fuer Hydrobiologie und Fischereiwissenschaft
Universität Hamburg
Zeiseweg 9
D-22765 Hamburg
GERMANY
Tel. ++49 40 4123 6668 or 6691
Fax. ++49 40 4123 6696
e-mail: D.Blome@rzcip1.uni-hamburg.de
Matthew Hooge
Department of Biological Sciences
Murray Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469, USA
Tel + 207 866-0255
e-mail: mhooge81@maine.edu
John Moverley
Museum of Victoria
71 Victoria Crescent
Abbotsford
Victoria 3067
AUSTRALIA
e-mail: jmover@mov.vic.gov.au
E-mail address corrections
Bob Higgins: rphiggins@unca.campus.mci.net
Nikolaos Lampadariou: nlamp@imbc.gr
J.German Rodriguez: german@uvigo.es
Roberto Sandulli: r.sandulli@biologia.uniba.it
Isabel Alfonso
Laboratoria de Biologia Marina
Facultad de Biologia
Universidad de Sevilla
APDO 1095
41080 Sevilla
SPAIN
Fax. +34 (9)5 455 7099
e-mail: misabel@cica.es
Interests: I am working on my Ph.D. thesis in Laboratorio de
Biologia Marina, University of Sevilla. I am studying marine free-living
nematodes which live in the muddy bottom influenced by urban sewage in
Algeciras Bay (Strait of Gibraltar). I am interested as well in the nematodes
assoicated with invertebrates such as Bryozoa and sponges. The main objective
of this work is know which species of nematodes are present in this area
and its spatio-temporal distribution, comparing different environmental
situations. I started my doctoral thesis two years ago and I had just finished
the sampling period. I am interested in publications abut taxonomy these
animals. I would like to know people who work in this theme and contact
with them if possible.
Eugenia Bandera
Laboratoria de Biologia Marina
Facultad de Biologia
Universidad de Sevilla
APDO 1095
41080 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel. +34 5423 4904
Fax. +34 5423 3480
e-mail: meugenia@cica.es
Interests: I am working on my Ph.D. at the Marine Biology Laboratory
of the University of Sevilla under the guidance of Dr. P.J. López-González.
My research deals with the taxonomy and ecology of harpacticoid copepods
in Algeciras Bay (Strait of Gibraltar, Southern Spain). I am studying the
development and structure of the copepod community through the bay for
one year. I am trying to relate species composition and some diversity
indices of copepod populations along Algeciras Bay with the effect of environmental
factors. For the moment, my work is mainly the identification of the species
and possible taxonomic problems.
Matthew R. Lee
Dpartmento de Ecologia
Pontificia Universidad catolicia de Chile
Santiago
Casilla 114-D
CHILI
Tel. 56 (2) 686 2645
Fax. 56 (2) 686 2621
e-mail: jcorrea@genes.bio.puc.cl
Interests: I am currently working at the Catholic University in Santiago
(Chile), where I am using meiofaunal community structure to assess the
impact of copper mine tailings disposal. I will also, in the next 12 months,
be setting up microcosm experiments to determine the effects of copper
on meiofauna.
In addition to the ecotoxicology, where I get paid for, Im also interested
in the general ecology of meiofauna on exposed beaches, and taxonomy. Im
currently working on Kinorhyncha of the genus Caberia.
RECENT LITERATURE
* AbuRezq, TS, Yule, AB & Teng, SK, 1997. Ingestion, fecundity,
growth rates and culture of the harpacticoid copepod, Tisbe furcata,
in the laboratory. Hydrobiologia, 347: 109-118.
* Alve, E & Murray, JW, 1997. High benthic fertility and taphonomy
of foraminifera: a case study of the Skaggerak, North Sea. Marine Micropaleontology,
31: 157-175.
* Archer SD, Leakey, RJG, Burkill, PH, Sleigh, MA & Appleby, CJ,
1996. Microbial
ecology of sea ice at a coastal Antarctic site: community composition,
biomass and temporal change. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 135: 179-195.
* Arrigo, KR, Worthen, DL, Lizotte, MP, Dixon, P.& Dieckmann, G,
1997. Primary production in Antarctic sea ice. Science, 276: 394-397.
* Bacci, E, Lanzillotti, E & Gaggi, C, 1997. Strategia riproduttiva
dei nematodi e qualità delle acque interne: risultati preliminari.
S. It. E. Atti, 18: 449-451. (In Italian)
* Bakanov, AI, 199?. Spatial structure of interstitial meiofauna
on a sandy Black Sea beach. Biol. Mar, 21: 295-298.
* Bruno, MC, Cottarelli, V & Franzoi, P, 1997. Ruolo dei fattori
ambientali nella struttura della comunità di copepodi interstiziali
del Lago di Bolsena (Italia centrale). S. It. E. Atti, 18: 151-154. (In
Italian)
* Cao, Y, Bark, AW & Williams, WP, 1997. A comparison of clustering
methods for river benthic community analysis. Hydrobiologia, 347: 25-40.
* Chu, KH, Tam, PF, Fung, CH & Chen, QC, 1997. A biological survey
of ballast water in container ships entering Hong Kong. Hydrobiologia,
352: 201-206.
* Della Croce, N, Covazzi, A, Chiantore, M, Danovaro, R.& Albertelli,
G, 1997. A community experiment using benthic chambers: changes in macro
and meiobenthic compartments. S. It. E. Atti, 18: 283-284.
* Editorial: Biodiversity, Productivity and System Integrity. Mar.
Poll. Bull., 34: 680-681.
* Epstein, S.S., 1997. Microbial food webs in marine sediments. I.
Trophic interactions and grazing rates in two tidal flat communities. Microbial
Ecology, 34: 188-198.
* Epstein, S.S., 1997. Microbial food webs in marine sediments. II.
Seasonal changes in trophic interactions in a sandy tidal flat community.
Microbial Ecology, 34: 199-209.
* Escobar, E, Lopez, M, Soto, LA & Signoret, M, 1997. Density and
biomass of the meiofauna of the upper continental slope in two regions
of the Gulf of Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 23: 463-489.
* Esteves, AM & de Fonseca-Genevois, VG, 1997. Microdistribution
of meiofauna at Coroa do Aviao, Pernambuco, Brazil with special reference
of the utilization of spatial autocorrelation analysis. Arquivos de Biologia
e Tecnologia, 40: 89-95. (In Portuguese)
* Fujiwara, M. & R.C. Highsmith, 1997. Harpacticoid copepods: potential
link between inbound adult salmon and outbound juvenile salmon. Mar. Ecol.
Progr. Ser., 158: 205-216.
* Gaughan, DJ & Potter, IC, 1997. Analysis of diet and feeding
strategies within an assemblage of estuarine larval fish and an objective
assessment of dietary niche overlap. Fishery Bulletin, 95: 722-731.
* Gee, J.M. & P.J. Somerfield, 1997. Do mangrove diversity and
leaf litter decay promote meiofaunal diversity? Journal of Experimental
Marine Biology and Ecology, 218: 13-33.
* Goldin, Q, Mishra, V, Ullal, V, Athalye, RP & Gokhale, KS, 1996.
Meiobenthos of mangrove mudflats from shallow region of Thane Creek, central
west coast of India. Indian Journal of Marine Science, 25: 137-141.
* Harris, VA & Iwasaki, N, 1997. A new species of Porcellidium
and two new genera belonging to the family Porcellidiidae (Crustacea, Copepoda,
Harpacticoida) from Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science
Museum, Ser. A (Zoology), 23: 131-147.
* Hattori, H & Saito, H, 1997. Diel changes in vertical distribution
and feeding activity of copepods in ice-cover, Resolute Passage, Canadian
Artic in spring 1992. Journal of Marine Systems, 11: 205-219.
* Hottinger, L, 1997. Shallow benthic foraminiferal assemblages as
signals for depth of their deposition and their limitations. Bulletin de
la Société Géologique de France, 168: 491-505. (In
French)
* Hunt, HL & Scheibling, RE, 1997. Role of early post-settlement
mortality in recruitment of benthic invertebrates. Marine Ecology Progress
Series, 155: 269-301.
* Jayaraju, N & Reddi, KR, 1997. Effect of revier discharge on
the test morphology of benthic foraminifera, southeast coast of India.
Journal of the Geological Society of India, 50: 435-439.
* Manley, C.J. & S.R. Shaw, 1997. Geotaxis and phototaxis in Elphidium
crispum (Protozoa: Foraminiferida). JMBA, 77: 959-968.
* McGrady-Steed, J., P.M. Harris & P.J. Morin, 1997. Biodiversity
regulates ecosystem predictability. Nature, 390: 162-165.
* Moodley, L, vander Zwaan, GJ, Herman, PMJ, Kempers, L & van Breugel,
P, 1997. Differential response of benthic meiofauna to anoxia with special
reference to Foraminifera (Protista: Sarcodina). Marine Ecology Progress
Series, 158: 151-163.
* Morgan, CA, Cordell, JR & Simenstad, CA, 1997. Sink or swim?
Copepod population maintenance in the Columbia River estuarine turbidity
- maxima region. Marine Biology, 129: 309-317.
* Ofea, N, 1996. Qualitative and Quantitative microbenthos composition
of El Tigre pond (Parana River, Argentina). Iheringia, Ser. Zool., 80:
3-11.
* Ogawa, K, Matsuzaki, K & Misaki, H, 1997. A new species of Balaenophilus
(Copepoda: Harpacticoida), an ectoparasite of a sea turtle in Japan. Zoological
Science, 14: 691-700.
* Olafsson, E. & S.G.M. Ndaro, 1997. Impact of the mangrove
crabs Uca annulipes and Dotilla fenestrata on meiobenthos.
Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 158: 225-231.
* Pfeifer, D, Baeumer, HP, Orteeb, H, Sach, G.& Schleiner,
U, 1996. Modeling spatial distributional patterns of benthic meiofauna
species by Thomas and related processes. Ecological Modeling, 87: 85-294.
* Posey, MH, Alphin, TD & Powell, CM 1997. Plant and infaunal communities
associated with
a created marsh. Estuaries, 20: 42-47.
* Ricci, C & Pagani, M, 1997. Desiccation of Panagrolaimus rigidus
(nematoda): survival, reproduction and the influence on the internal clock.
Hydrobiologia, 347: 1-13.
* Robertson, AL, Lancaster, J, Belyea, LR & Hildrew, AG, 1997.
Hydraulic habitat and the assemblage structure of stream benthic microcrustacea.
Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 16: 562-575.
* Schizas, NV, GT Street, BC Coull, GT Chandler & JM Quattro, 1997.
An efficient DNA extraction method for small metazoans. Molecular Marine
Biology and Biotechnology, 6: 381-383.
* Schrijvers, J, Schallier, R, Silence, J, Okondo, JP & Vincx,
M, 1997. Interactions between epibenthos and meiobenthos in a high intertidal
Avicennia marina mangrove forest. Mangroves and Salt Marshes, 1:
137-154.
* Schrijvers, J & Vincx, M, 1997. Cage experiments in an East African
mangrove forest: a synthesis. Journal of Sea Research, 38: 123-133.
* Sergeeva, NG & Kolesnikova, EA, 1996. Results of Black Sea meiobehthos
investigation. Ehkol. Morya, 45: 54-62.
* Soetaert, K., J. Vanaverbeke, C. Heip, P.M.J. Herman, J.J. Middelburg,
A. Sandee & G. Duineveld, 1997. Nematode distribution in ocean margin
sediments of the Goban Spur (northeast Atlantic) in relation to sediment
geochemistry. Deep-Sea Res. I, 44: 1671-1684.
* Soltwedel, T., 1997. Meiobenthos distribution pattern in the tropical
East Atlantic: indication for fractionated sedimentation of organic matter
to the sea floor? Marine Biology, 129: 747-756.
* Souissi, S, Carlotti, F & Nival, P, 1997. Food- and temperature-dependent
function of moulting rate in copepods: An example of parametrization for
population dynamics models. Journal of Plankton Research, 19: 1331-1346.
* Strayer, DL, May, SE, Nielsen, P, Wollheim, W & Hausam, S, 1997.
Oxygen, organic matter, and sediment granulometry as controls on hyporheic
animal communities. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 140: 131-144.
* Traunspurger, W, Bergtold, M & Goedkoop, W, 1997. The effects
of nematodes on bacterial activity and abundance in a freshwater sediment.
Oecologia, 112: 118-122.
* Tsujino, Mutsumi & Tamai, Kyoichi, 1996. Sediment conditions
and meiobenthic community in Osaka Bay, Japan. Bulletin of the Nansei National
Fisheries Research Institute, 29: 87-100.
* Vanaverbeke, J, Arbizu, PM, Dahms, HU & Schminke, HK, 1997. The
metazoan meiobenthos along a depth gradient in the Arctic Laptev Sea with
special attention to nematode communities. Polar Biology, 18: 391-401.
* Vanaverbeke, J, Soetaert, K, Heip, C & Vanreusel, A, 1997. The
metazoan meiobenthos along the continental slope of the Goban Spur (NE
Atlantic). Journal of Sea Research, 38: 93-107.
* Vezina, AF, Demers, S, Laurion, I, Sime-Ngando, T, Juniper, SK &
Devine, L, 1997. Carbon flows through the microbial food web of first-year
ice in Resolute Passage (Canadian High Arctic). Journal of Marine
Systems, 11:173-189.
* Widmark, JGV & Speijer, RP, 1997. Benthic foraminiferal ecomarker
species of the terminal Cretaceous (late Maastrichtiaan) deep-sea
Tethys. Marine Micropaleontology, 31: 135-155.
* Williamson, JE& Creese, RG, 1996. Small invertebrates inhabiting
the crustose alga Pseudolithoderma sp. in northern New Zealand.
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 30: 221-232.
* Woo, HJ, Culver, SJ & Oertel, GF, 1997. Benthic foraminiferal
communities of a barrier-lagoon system, Virginia, USA. Journal of Coastal
Research, 13: 1192-1200.
A WORD FROM THE PRODUCTION EDITOR
Due to the illness of time and some amount of work pressure in organising
an exhibition in the museum, I had to give the production of this issue
out of hand to a dedicated person who didnt want to see her name mentioned
for this. But : all credits for the production of this issue have
to go to Drs. Marleen De Troch who has been the acting production editor
for this issue. Many thanks to her and to all of those who
cooperated.
I hope to be able to present some more details of our Zoological Museum
when we meet at the XIMCO. See you then.
Dominick Verschelde.
Send your email reflections to: Dominick.Verschelde@rug.ac.be
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