TY - JOUR
T1 - Macrobenthic community structure in the northern Saudi waters of the Gulf, 14years after the 1991 oil spill
AU - Joydas, Thadickal Viswanathan
AU - Qurban, Mohammad Ali
AU - Al-Suwailem, Abdulaziz M.
AU - Krishnakumar, P. K.
AU - Nazeer, Zahid B.
AU - Cali, N. A.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The authors thank Al-Khafji Joint Operations, Al-Khafji, Saudi Arabia, for financial support (Project No. CEW02293). The authors are grateful to the Research Institute (RI), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, for providing the necessary facilities for carrying out the work. The authors are also thankful to Dr. Blair Bremberg, KFUPM/RI for editing the manuscript. The authors highly appreciate the anonymous reviewer for his suggestions to improve the quality of the manuscript.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - The 1991 Gulf oil spill heavily impacted the coastal areas of the Saudi waters of the Arabian Gulf and recent studies have indicated that even 15. years after the incident, macrobenthos had not completely recovered in the sheltered bays in the affected region such as, Manifa Bay. This study investigates the community conditions of macrobenthos in the open waters in one of the impacted areas, Al-Khafji waters, about 14. years after the spill. Diversity measures and community structure analyses indicate a healthy status of polychaete communities. The BOPA index reveals that oil sensitive amphipods were recolonized in the study area. This confirms that the benthic communities of the oil spill impacted area had taken only
AB - The 1991 Gulf oil spill heavily impacted the coastal areas of the Saudi waters of the Arabian Gulf and recent studies have indicated that even 15. years after the incident, macrobenthos had not completely recovered in the sheltered bays in the affected region such as, Manifa Bay. This study investigates the community conditions of macrobenthos in the open waters in one of the impacted areas, Al-Khafji waters, about 14. years after the spill. Diversity measures and community structure analyses indicate a healthy status of polychaete communities. The BOPA index reveals that oil sensitive amphipods were recolonized in the study area. This confirms that the benthic communities of the oil spill impacted area had taken only
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/562077
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025326X11005996
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856237941&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.11.007
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.11.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 22136761
SN - 0025-326X
VL - 64
SP - 325
EP - 335
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
IS - 2
ER -