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The distribution of aquatic oligochaetes in brackish inland waters in the SW Netherlands

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Macrobenthic fauna was sampled in inland waters with unstable environmental parameters in the SW Netherlands. The distribution of 23 species of aquatic oligochaetes was related to chlorinity. Oligochaetes and other macrofaunal taxa were grouped by cluster analysis. Brackish-marine oligochaetes appeared to have a similarly large tolerance for chlorinity variations, as is known for the better researched euryhaline macrofauna.

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  1. P. F. M. Verdonschot

    Present address: Dept. Watershed Management, Provincial Water Authority, P.O. Box 73, 8000 AB, Zwolle, The Netherlands

  2. M. Smies

    Present address: Group Toxicology Division, Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij, B. V., P. O. Box 162, 2501 AN, Den Haag, The Netherlands

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  1. Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research, Vierstraat 28, 4401 EA, Yerseke, The Netherlands

    P. F. M. Verdonschot, M. Smies & A. B. J. Sepers

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Verdonschot, P.F.M., Smies, M. & Sepers, A.B.J. The distribution of aquatic oligochaetes in brackish inland waters in the SW Netherlands. Hydrobiologia 89, 29–38 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00017535

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