Marine Research in Indonesia
Vol 35 No 2 (2010)

A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE RESPONSE OF AMPHIPHOD GRANDIDIERELLA SP. TO CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT OF JAKARTA BAY

Hindarti, Dwi (Unknown)
Puspitasari, Rachma (Unknown)
Arifin, Zainal (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2010

Abstract

A preliminary study on the response of amphipod exposed to contaminated sediments of Jakarta Bay was carried out in October 2009. The objective of the study was to determine the mortality rate of amphipod in response to exposure of contaminated sediments. Seven sediment samples were taken from the bay, i.e, reference site (St. A), and six-contaminated sites (St. B3, B5, C3, C5, D3, and D5). Amphipod (Grandidierella sp.) was collected from reference site. The study showed that average of mortality rate of amphipod ranged between 50.0 and 76.3% at contaminated sediments and 38.3% at reference sediments. There was significant difference on mortality rate of amphipod exposed to sediments of reference site and that of contaminated sites. The mortality of Grandidierella sp. was not strongly correlated with the concentration of Pb and Cu in contaminated sediments. The critical mortality factor of amphipod in this study might be due to variation in grain size of sediments and short period of acclimatization.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

MRI

Publisher

Subject

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Description

MARINE RESEARCH IN INDONESIA (MRI) has been published since 1956 by Indonesia's oldest marine research institute, the Research Center for Oceanography of LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Sciences). MRI focuses on physical, chemical, biological, geological oceanographic as well as coastal management ...