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Do presence of gray shrimp Crangon crangon larvae influence meiobenthic features? Assessment with a focus on traits of nematodes

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In this study, a microcosm experiment was conducted for 30 days to assess the impact of the presence of juvenile gray shrimp Crangon crangon on meiofauna. The results suggested that juvenile shrimp had a significant negative impact on the abundance of nematodes and copepods, but no effect on polychaetes. Moreover, nematodes showed a significant decline in individual weight. The collected nematodes were taxonomically identified and assigned to five functional traits: shapes of the tail and amphid, life history, feeding types, and adult length. The nematode traits were affected by the number of shrimp introduced, and descriptors followed normal or inversed bell-shaped curves. When no shrimp were present, the nematofauna had a higher species richness compared with treatments of 4, 8, and 12 shrimp. Bell-shaped curve patterns were common in relation to the two phases of feeding for C. crangon. During the first phase, C. crangon consumed the nematode species Oncholaimus campylocercoides; thereafter, shrimp fed mostly on the nematode Anticoma eberthi and copepods.

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The authors extend their appreciation to the Researchers Supporting Project number (RSP-2020/17), King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

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  1. Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, Laboratory of Environment Biomonitoring, Coastal Ecology and Ecotoxicology Unit, University of Carthage, 7021, Zarzouna, Tunisia

    Mohamed Allouche, Ahmed Nasri, Hamouda Beyrem & Fehmi Boufahja

  2. Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Box 2455, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

    Abdel Halim Harrath, Lamjed Mansour & Saleh Alwasel

  3. Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

    Gabriel Plăvan

  4. Texas Water Development Board, 1700 North Congress Avenue, Austin, TX, 78701, USA

    Melissa Rohal-Lupher

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Mohamed Allouche: Formal analysis, validation, writing (original draft), and writing (review and editing). Ahmed Nasri: Data curation and investigation. Abdel Halim Harrath: Funding acquisition, writing (review and editing). Lamjed Mansour: Funding acquisition, writing (review and editing). Saleh Alwasel: Funding acquisition and investigation. Hamouda Beyrem: Data curation and investigation. Gabriel Plăvan: Investigation. Melissa Rohal-Lupher: Writing (review and editing). Fehmi Boufahja: Conceptualization, formal analysis, funding acquisition, investigation, methodology, supervision, validation, and writing (review and editing).

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Allouche, M., Nasri, A., Harrath, A.H. et al. Do presence of gray shrimp Crangon crangon larvae influence meiobenthic features? Assessment with a focus on traits of nematodes. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 21303–21313 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-12069-0

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