Effects of Mangrove Zonation and the Physicochemical Parameters of Soil on the Distribution of Macrobenthic Fauna in Kadolkele Mangrove Forest, a Tropical Mangrove Forest in Sri Lanka

Table 4

Summary of the 2 major infaunal taxa that contributed to more than 97% of the total species abundance of the 3 mangrove zones in Kadolkele mangrove forest ( = 60 soil core samples from each zone).

Infauna taxa	Rhizophora zone	Avicennia zone	Lumnitzera zone
Limnodrilus sp.^*; (oligochaete worms)	2.00 ± 0.40^a; (0–16)	0^b	5.85 ± 0.95^c; (0–29)
Neanthes negomboensis^*; (polychaete worm)	0.07 ± 0.03^a,b; (0-1)	0^a	0.17 ± 0.05^b; (0–2)

Note. Values are mean ± SE, range in parenthesis. Different superscript letters in a row denote significant differences ( < 0.05) indicated by Tukey’s pairwise significant difference test. * indicates significantly calculated value detected by ANOVA.