Ultrasonic treatment of sediment samples for more efficient sorting of meiofauna1
Limnology and OceanographyPublished 1 May 1975Open access
Hjalmar Thiel, David Thistle, George D. F. Wilson
Citations27
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SJR score1.57
SNIP1.27
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Abstract
The ultrasonic treatment of mei‐ofaunal samples breaks up sediment aggregations, permitting more efficient washing of the samples and reducing sorting time. Such treatment also allows recovery of specimens associated with fecal pellets and mud balls, and it cleans Foraminifera, improving their staining properties. Damage to agglutinating Foraminifera and certain other taxa limits the utility of the technique.
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Earth and Planetary Sciences
OecologiaOn the importance of marine meiofauna for benthos communities
328 Citations1971Sebastian A. Gerlach
In sublittoral sediments of silty sand live about 55000–1300000 meiofauna animals, which is a minimum figure because methods are not absolutely efficient and the assumption is forwarded that in general meiobenthos has a metabolism five times more active than that of macrofauna.