Abstract
An 84 day laboratory experiment indicates the decline of intertidal meiofauna abundance may be directly related to treatment level and time of exposure to sewage sludges. The observed changes revealed a marked decrease of nematodes and total disappearance of mesobenthic harpacticoids while the non-interstitial copepod species were little affected. The possibility of a new interpretation of the Nematode/Copepod ratio as an index of organic pollution in sediments is discussed.
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