Table 2 Total abundance, number of individuals/core (0.0078 m2) of taxa in each container type at both experimental sites at the end of the experiment, categorized according to post-larval dispersal mechanisms
Taxa | Colorado | Bolsico | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S/H | S/L | L/H | L/L | R | S/H | S/L | L/H | L/L | R | ||
Active dispersal (diel vertical migrants) | |||||||||||
A | Eudevenopus gracilipes | 463 | 1,016 | 663 | 876 | 762 | 1,726 | 1,695 | 2,012 | 2,091 | 1,162 |
A | Heterophoxus sp. | 524 | 425 | 299 | 254 | 1,342 | 5 | 32 | 17 | 33 | 566 |
C | Cylindroleberidae 1 | 244 | 118 | 99 | 71 | 72 | 166 | 135 | 124 | 139 | 36 |
A | Aora typica | 156 | 80 | 15 | 42 | 128 | 64 | 31 | 39 | 41 | 15 |
N | Nematoda indet. | 112 | 30 | 53 | 81 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
C | Cylindroleberidae 2 | 27 | 16 | 7 | 123 | 76 | 83 | 44 | 25 | 36 | 279 |
C | Diastylis planifrons | 24 | 28 | 11 | 22 | 73 | 211 | 145 | 170 | 163 | 88 |
A | Ampelisca sp. | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 3 |
C | Isopoda | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
A | Caprellidae | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C | Copepoda | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C | Mysidacea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 23 | 9 | 0 |
Swimmers/crawlers | |||||||||||
La | Branchiostoma elongatum | 342 | 311 | 538 | 382 | 60 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 0 |
P | Capitella sp. | 147 | 141 | 232 | 540 | 844 | 4 | 44 | 2 | 36 | 34 |
G | Nassarius gayi | 13 | 10 | 54 | 84 | 6 | 122 | 203 | 181 | 197 | 41 |
P | Paraprionospio pinnata | 38 | 22 | 37 | 50 | 12 | 65 | 48 | 41 | 39 | 136 |
Ne | Nemertina | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 58 |
C | Pagurus villosus | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
C | Cancer sp. | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B | Mysella sp. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 501 |
C | Pinnixia transversalis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B | Protothaca thaca | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C | Decapoda ind. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
G | Oliva peruviana | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C | Stomatopoda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
G | Mitrella unisfaciata | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C | Betaeus truncatus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
E | Patiria chilensis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
G | Crepipatella sp. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
G | Xanthochorus buxea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
P | Phyllodocidae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B | Argopecten purpuratus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Passive dispersal (resuspension/poor swimmers) | |||||||||||
B | Tagelus dombeii | 912 | 712 | 1,213 | 1,537 | 478 | 78 | 87 | 61 | 84 | 192 |
B | Nucula pisum sp. | 598 | 596 | 139 | 218 | 654 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 59 |
P | Spiophanes bombyx | 2 | 0 | 78 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 4 | 29 | 4 | 514 |
B | Semimytilus algosus | 2 | 24 | 11 | 20 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
P | Maldanidae | 8 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
P | Paraonidae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B | Semele solida | 2 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 7 | 24 | 14 | 6 | 108 |
B | Transenella panosa | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
P | Cossuridae | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
P | Cirratulidae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 112 | 84 | 160 | 36 |
P | Ophelidae | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
P | Chaeptoteridae | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
P | Sabellidae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
P | Ampharetidae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
P | Flabelligeridae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
P | Nephtydae | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 34 |
E | Ophiuroidea ind. | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
P | Nereidae | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
G | Crucibulum sp. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
G | Polinices uber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B | Brachiodontes granulata | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ech | Echiuridae ind. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B | Ensis macha | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
G | Chiton cummingsi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |