Numerical Simulations of Marine Sediment Movement Affected by Water Waves;

The biodiversity analysis for free living marine nematodes was made based on two stations sampled in 1997, together with the data collected from 7 stations in 1986, one station from Jiaozhou Bay in 1995 and the other from Meizhou Bay in 1988.

The permanent meiofauna were dominated by free-living marine nematodes and harpacticoid copepods,whose mean relative abundances being 41% and 28% respectively, and their abundances and relative dominances appeared to be related to their feeding habits and the degree of shelter.

Two hundred and twenty-three species (or taxa) of free-living marine nematodes belong- ing to 145 genera,32 families and 4 orders are identified.

The benthic environment, the abundance, the biomass and production, the community structure and biodiversity of meiofauna and systematics of free-living marine nematodes were quantitatively studied at a grid of twenty two stations during the cruise of investigation for over winter ground of anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) in the Southern Yellow Sea, China in January 2003.