Table 3 Species number of dominant taxa in mussel beds and surrounding sediments
From: Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments
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 | |
Algae | 4 (4/0/0) | 0 (0/0/0) | 0 (0/0/0) | 0 (0/0/0) | 0 (0/0/0) | 0 (0/0/0) | 4 (4/0/0) | 0 (0/0/0) |
Crustacea | 6 (3/3/0) | 2 (0/2/0) | 7 (2/5/0) | 2 (0/2/0) | 1 (0/1/0) | 1 (0/1/0) | 6 (1/5/0) | 3 (0/3/0) |
Mollusca | 4 (1/2/1) | 2 (0/0/2) | 4 (0/3/1) | 1 (0/0/1) | 5 (0/1/4) | 4 (0/0/4) | 11 (0/8/3) | 13 (0/8/5) |
Polychaeta | 13 (1/3/9) | 11 (0/1/10) | 7 (0/0/7) | 6 (0/0/6) | 8 (0/0/8) | 15 (0/1/14) | 8 (0/0/8) | 9 (0/0/9) |
Other species | 5 (3/1/1) | 2 (0/0/2) | 5 (0/1/4) | 3 (0/0/3) | 1 (0/0/1) | 0 (0/0/0) | 3 (1/1/1) | 1 (0/1/0) |