Examples of using Macrofauna in English and their translations into Russian
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Micro- and macrofauna acts as a soil producer.
Inter-annual variability of meiofauna was presented along with the composition of the macrofauna.
Investigation into the macrofauna of the Clarion-Clipperton zone and its response to disturbance.
The most diverse species were small animals up to about 1 millimetre in size,termed the macrofauna.
Macrofauna, meiofauna and microfauna decreased in density after eight years of the disturbance.
Boulengerula taitana feeds on earthworms, termites, dipteran larvae andother soil macrofauna.
However, box cores may not be suitable for studying the macrofauna at the densities in which they occur.
In particular, the report describes the distribution and productivity of phytoplankton, zooplankton,meio- and macrofauna.
Molecular analyses of the meiofauna and macrofauna included detailed protocols and phylogenetic and ecological studies.
A box corer was lost on a cruise immediately prior to the contractor's cruise,so no data on macrofauna were collected.
Data on macrofauna(>250 um) abundance, species structure, biomass and diversity should be obtained through a quantitative analysis of samples.
This report recounts the results of extensive, in-depth studies of megafauna, macrofauna, meiofauna, epifauna, and endofauna at the B4 site an area of 4,240 km2.
To study the macrofauna, 108 sediment samples were collected from 36 stations(resulting in 2147 organisms) and for meiofauna 84 sediment samples were collected from 12 stations 8,208 organisms.
Ii Collect data on the seafloor communities specifically relating to megafauna, macrofauna, meiofauna, microbial biomass, nodule fauna and demersal scavengers;
Metadata for macrofauna and nodule fauna provided by IOM in its annual report were reasonably in line with the format agreed at the meeting between the Authority and contractors in January 2012.
This has shown that there may be some problems in sample processing,also evident in the variability of the proportions of major macrofauna taxa between cores, which is larger than expected.
Biological studies included an examination of the meiofauna, macrofauna and microorganisms, and a microcosm experiment to understand the effect of mining on microorganisms.
Following an informal meeting of exploration contractors for polymetallic nodules in January 2012, it was decided to organize a series of taxonomic exchange workshops on the megafauna, macrofauna and meiofauna in the contract areas.
Biological studies consisted of an analysis of meiofauna(species composition and abundance), macrofauna(species composition, abundance and biomass) and microbiology of the water column biomass and production.
Similar declines were observed in the non-disturbed area with only 30 per cent of macrofauna, 14 per cent of meiofauna(43 per cent of meiofauna"groups") and 1 per cent of microbes found.
For example, in just one expedition to the Tasman and Coral Seas in the South Pacific, scientists reported that 16 to 36 per cent of the 921species of fish and other benthic macrofauna collected on 24 seamounts were new to science.
The technique allows the first insights to be gained into the response rate of bacteria and macrofauna to phytodetritus deposition, and C-cycling rates in Clarion-Clipperton Zone abyssal seafloor sediments.
Of 921 species of fish and benthic macrofauna collected on 24 seamounts in the Tasman and south Coral seas, between 16 per cent and 36 per cent were new to science and many, if not most, were potentially endemic to the individual seamounts or seamount clusters on which they were collected.
Based on the recommendations of the contractors, it is proposed to convene three expert workshops to standardize the taxonomy of megafauna, macrofauna and meiofauna associated with polymetallic nodule deposits in the Zone.
The exceptionally low abundances of macrofauna in the box core samples, even of polychaetes, is interesting andappears to indicate that macrofauna do not play a critical role in ecosystem functioning.
The environmental work performed by IOM in 2011 consisted of the analysis of sediment and pore water properties,biological communities(megafauna, macrofauna and nodule fauna) and bioturbation processes using samples collected during a cruise in 2009.
Those benthic biological parameters that have proven to be tightly correlated with POC flux to the deep-sea floor, and thus are potentially useful inputs for a geological model, include the following:(a) the abundance and biomass of organisms in various size classes,including megafauna, macrofauna, meiofauna and microbiota.
It is anticipated that the second workshop in the series,which will focus on macrofauna, will be held in the Republic of Korea in the last quarter of 2014, and the third, on meiofauna, will be held in the first part of 2015.
The contractor stated that the parameters sampled were physical oceanography(temperature, salinity, water depth and current), chemical oceanography of surface waters(pH, dissolved oxygen, oxygen saturation, phosphate, silicate, nitrate, nitrite and ammonium salt) and biology chlorophyll-a, size fraction of chlorophyll-a, plankton,meiofauna, macrofauna and megafauna.