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Environmental Factors Affecting Temporal Patterns of Alien Spionid Polychaete, Streblospio gynobranchiata Webster, 1989 in the Gorgan Bay, Caspian Sea

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Streblospio gynobranchiata is an alien species in the Caspian Sea and widely spread over large extensions of the Iranian Southern coast. In the present study, we examined the distribution patterns of this species in the Gorgan Bay, Caspian Sea. Sampling was carried out during four seasons and the relation between S. gynobranchiata abundance with environmental parameters was investigated. Abundance of S. gynobranchiata had no significant differences between spring, summer and autumn (p > 0.05). Based on Distance-based Linear Model analysis, those affecting factors on S. gynobranchiata abundance were temperature in winter, organic matter in spring, depth and salinity in summer and depth in autumn at the Gorgan Bay which indicates the controlling role of various environmental parameters on S. gynobranchiata abundance at different seasons. There were negative and significant correlations between S. gynobranchiata and diversity indices (p < 0.05). Our results suggest that S. gynobranchiata is mainly responsible factor for differences in community structure of the studied areas.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the Golestan Department of Environment for the financial support and cooperation in implementing this project.

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  1. Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), Tehran, 1411813389, Iran

    Kazem Darvish Bastami, Hossein Bagheri, Ali Hamzehpour & Mehrshad Taheri

  2. Iranian Department of Environment, Tehran, Iran

    Ghasem Ghorbanzadeh Zaferani

  3. Golestan Department of Environment, Tehran, Iran

    Vahid Kheirabadi

  4. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Animal Science and Fisheries, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Km 9 Darya Boulevard, P.O. Box, 578, Sari, Iran

    Sarah Haghparast

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Bastami, K.D., Zaferani, G.G., Bagheri, H. et al. Environmental Factors Affecting Temporal Patterns of Alien Spionid Polychaete, Streblospio gynobranchiata Webster, 1989 in the Gorgan Bay, Caspian Sea. Iran J Sci Technol Trans Sci 43, 345–356 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40995-018-0568-y

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