Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments

Table 1 Shannon Wiener Index H and evenness e in mussel beds and surrounding sediments without mussels of the respective study sites

	North Sea		Chilean coast		Yellow Sea		South Australian coast
	Mussel bed	Sand flat	Mussel bed	Sand flat	Mussel bed	Sand flat	Mussel bed	Sand flat
Shannon Wiener H	1.84	1.06	2.14	1.74	1.70	2.67	2.31	1.52
Evenness e	0.53	0.38	0.69	0.70	0.63	0.90	0.67	0.47

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