2007
DOI: 10.5134/70910
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Tsunami Impacts on Biodiversity of Seagrass Communities in the Andaman Sea, Thailand: (2) Abundance and Diversity of Benthic Animals

Abstract: Seagrass beds support highly productive and diverse animal communities. Extreme physical disturbances such as tsunamis are expected to affect the abundance and diversity of both the seagrass and the infaunal community. To examine the effects of a tsunami on infaunal seagrass communities, we compared the communities in seagrass beds before and after the tsunami that hit the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand on December 26th, 2004. Infauna were collected in 2001 and again in 2005 from inside and outside seagrass veg… Show more

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“…In fact, the tsunami after the Sumatra Andaman Earthquake, which occurred on 26 December 2004, caused large decreases in sea grass communities, communities of Sargassum spp. and species of large brown algae, resulting in a significant change in the communities (Nakaoka et al ., ; Whanpetch et al ., , ).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In fact, the tsunami after the Sumatra Andaman Earthquake, which occurred on 26 December 2004, caused large decreases in sea grass communities, communities of Sargassum spp. and species of large brown algae, resulting in a significant change in the communities (Nakaoka et al ., ; Whanpetch et al ., , ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%