Meiofauna Biodiversity and Community Structures in the Barents Sea and Nansen Basin Are Influenced by Benthic Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity.

3.3 Spatiotemporal Structuring Effects on Meiobenthic Communities Our three‐way PERMANOVA analysis indicated a highly significant structuring effect of stations and sediment fractions on meiobenthic communities on the level of higher groups, explaining 36% and 18% of the variation respectively (Table 1 ).

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We observed a clear trend of higher abundances (Figure 3g ) at the shelf stations (P1, P4) than at the slope (P6) and in the Nansen Basin (P7), and in total, we recorded 9 higher‐level taxa on the southern shelf, 12 on the northern shelf, 12 on the slope, and 8 in the basin.

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