Research Article
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 8
Summary of the 6 major epifaunal taxa that contributed to more than 90% of the total species abundance in the 3 mangrove zones in Kadolkele mangrove forest ( = 12 quadrate samples from each zone).
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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. |