The Hebei spirit oil spill: Seasonal variation of macrobenthic community on Rocky intertidal shore, south of Korea

Abstract

Oil pollution is one of the major anthropogenic impacts which have been inducing the serious ecological disasters on the inter-tidal rocky shore along the coasts, especially. Species composition, biomass and diversity also decreased gradually for about six month except crawl animals. Worst of all, in that summer which recruited season, it pasted nine month after oil pollution, we rarely found the new spat. Only, one year later, next summer in 2008, main species, barnacle, oyster recruited massively on the bottom.