Two sites were selected in the North Aegean Sea for the study of shallow fine sand assemblages,
which are poorly known in the Eastern Mediterranean. The biomonitoring of these sites can provide
useful information on the impact of human activities on the macrofaunal and meiofaunal composition
of these assemblages. In order to examine this impact, sampling took place in five different periods
between 2000 and 2001. The qualitative and quantitative compositions of the communities at the two
sites showed certain differences, mostly between the sites and the year of sampling rather than between
sampling periods, which would be the expected outcome. The communities seem to be affected by a
combination of the human activities with the particular hydrodynamics of the studied sites
