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Macrobenthos Assemblages Structure from Southern South China<br />

Sea<br />

Siti Anisah Binti Zainal Abidin<br />

Supervisor: Dr. Maizah Binti Mohd Abdullah<br />

Bachelor of Science (Marine Biology)<br />

School of Marine & Environmental Sciences<br />

Macrobenthos are large organisms with range size >1.0 or 0.5 mm that live in<br />

or on bottom of water bodies. This study focuses on macrobenthos<br />

assemblages structure in deeper benthic environment of South China Sea,<br />

Kelantan and Terengganu waters for two different months, April and July 2017.<br />

Results represented, Multidimensional scaling (nMDS) and dendrogram from<br />

cluster analysis showed 4 distinct groups at 24% similarity level. Analysis of<br />

Similarity (ANOSIM) showed that macrobenthos assemblages structure in April<br />

and July were significantly different (observed R is 0.944, p

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