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2.1. Study area
2.2. Collection of the samples
2.2.1. Hydrographic parameters
2.2.2. Sediment and benthic samples
2.3. Analytical method\·
2.3.1. Sediment texture
2.4. References
2.3.2. Organic carbon
2.3.3. Benthic samples
2.3..1. Statistical analysis
2.1. Study area
2.3.4.1. Community structure
2.3.4.2. Similarity index
Chapter 2.
Materials and Methods
2.3.4.3. Predictive multiple rewession models
The area selected for the present study is the continental shelf of the northwest
coast of India. Samples were collected onboard the Fishery and Oceanographic
Research vessel (FOR V) Sagar Sampada (Plate 1) as part of benthic productivity
studies of a multidisciplinary project 'Marine Research on Living Resources (MR­
LR) Progamme', funded by Department of Ocean Development (000), Govt. of
India through the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE). The
present study is based on the samples collected along 6 transects (October, 1999) and
5 transects (February, 2002).
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