ECOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON MARINE NEMATODES FROM A SMALL SALT MARSH NEAR WOODS HOLE, MASSACHUSETTS1

Abstract

Some physiological experiments have been performed on some marine nematodes from a soft‐bottom community where they are numerically the most abundant group of the meiofauna. They appear to account for a quarter to a third of the biological activity in such a bottom. Different types of the same size show a three times variation in rate of O₂ uptake. A correlation seems to exist between respiration rate and feeding type.