Spatial variability in structural and functional aspects of macrofauna communities and their environmental parameters in the Jade Bay (Wadden Sea Lower Saxony, southern North Sea)

Table 4 Comparison of the coverage of intertidal mudflats, mixed sediments, sandflats and seagrass beds of the entire intertidal (area in %) between different areas of the Wadden Sea

Area (in %)	Jade Bay (Meyer and Ragutzki 1999; Adolph 2010)	Balgzand (Beukema 1974)	Königshafen (Reise et al.1994)
Mudflats	43.4	20	9.0
Mixed sediments	16.6	50
Sandflats	30.9	30	75.9
Seagrass beds	8.1	0	12.4

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