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Table 1 Dots indicate times when species were encountered during succession experiment (black) and disturbance experiment (white)

From: Effects of regular and irregular temporal patterns of disturbance on biomass accrual and species composition of a subtidal hard-bottom assemblage

 

2005

2006

 

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

Algae

Bacillariophyta

Rhodophyta

 Ceramium virgatum

 Polysiphonia stricta

   

 P. elongata

 

 Callithamnion corymbosum

     

 

 

 Plocamium cartilagineum

     

 Lomentaria clavellosa

     

     

Phaeophyceae

 Desmarestia aculeata

 

     

 Laminaria digitata

 

  

Chorda filum

  

    

Scytosiphonaceae

 

 

 

Cholophyta

 Ulva lactuca

 Filamentous green algae

 

 

 Bryopsis lyngbyei

      

 

Invertebrates

 Ascidians

  Ciona intestinalis

 

  Ascidiella aspersa

   

    

  Botryllus schlosseri

   

       

  Botrylloides leachii

   

     

  Sidnyum turbinatum

   

       

  Diplosoma listrium

   

  Didemnum macrulosum

   

 

  

  Molgula spec.

     

     

Crustaceans

 Jassa falcata

 

 Balanus crenatus

 

 Elminius modestus

 

 

 

 Verruca stroemia

   

 

Bryozoans

 Electra pilosa

 

    

 Scupocellaria scruposa

  

 Cryptosula pallasiana

   

 

Molluscs

 Mytilus edulis

 

 Ostrea spec.

   

 

     

Polychaetes

 Pomatoceros triqueter

     

     

Hydroids

 Obelia geniculata

 

  

Porifera

 Sycon coronatum

       

   
  1. Filamentous green algae group a conglomerate of different species of green algae, including the genera Monostroma, Ulva, and Chaetomorpha, for which unambiguous identification in the field was impossible