Effect of Pollution on the Abundance of Marine Fouling Organisms By

Effect of Pollution on the Abundance of Marine
Fouling Organisms
By
Ayman Habal and Fouad Abosamra
Ph. D Scientific Studies and Research Center Damascus, Syria 1990
Abstract
‘I1ie effects of IoTTUSticpof£u.tants on tfu afJuntlanu, ana fmding seasons of tfu mollusc ‘BanfjaBoul4i
tIie crustacean Limnoria ttipuncuua were stuaietf. ‘du DrUaing periotf was not fourni to be peatfy af·
aftfwUfJIi L. tripuncuua was fourni to peat mainly in Sepu”wer at the ustin9 situ of tliis stu.tfYi
er, an rorUu stu.tfy twtnty fj[omeurs north. of tliis sitt Iiatf L. tripunctata ptakjna in June ana Sep·
‘Ik nUmDtr of impactai faroat of botli species was founa to be inverstf:y affectd 6y the increase of 10·
pof£u.tants fevUs tliat wert ana.fy.wi. :HowefJtrj tfu malianism tliat cau.sea tliis effect Iias not 6un tUcc:xrndyet, ana /u.rtfur studus sliouitf be conduc ua to tiucitfau tIiefactors invo{vttf