Benthic community establishment on different concrete mixtures introduced to a German deep-water port

Table 3 List of macrofauna and algal taxa found on the concrete cubes

Phylum/class	Order	Family	Species	Neobiota
Arthropoda	Amphipoda	Gammaridae	Gammarus spec
	Decapoda	Cancridae	Cancer pagurus
	Sessila	Austrobalanidae	Austrominius modestus	K2
			*Balanus crenatus*
Bryozoa	Cheilostomatida	Bugulidae	*Crisularia purpurotincta*
		Electridae	Electra pilosa
Chlorophyta	Ulvales	Ulvaceae	Ulva spp
	Ulvales	Ulotrichaceae	Acrosiphonia arcta
Chordata	Stolidobranchia	Styelidae	Botryllus schlosseri	K3
Cnidaria	Actiniaria	Actiniidae	Urticina juv
			Urticina felina
Echinodermata	Forcipulatida	Asteriidae	Asterias rubens
Hydrozoa	Anthoathecata	Tubulariidae	Tubularia indivisa
			“Club polyp”
Mollusca	Littorinimorpha	Calyptraeidae	Crepidula fornicata	K2
	Mytilida	Mytilidae	Mytilus edulis
	Nudibranchia	Onchidorididae	Onchidoris bilamellata + Gelege
	Ostreida	Ostreidae	Crassostrea gigas	K1
	Trochida	Trochidae	Gibbula spec
Phaeophyceae	Ectocarpales	Acinetosporaceae	*Hincksia hincksiae*
(mat)			*Pilayella* spp
			*Pilayella littoralis*
		Ectocarpaceae	*Ectocarpus siliculosus*
Polychaeta	Phyllodocida	Polynoidae	Harmothoe glabra
			Harmothoe antilopes
	Terebellida	Terebellidae	*“Polychaete mud tube”s*
Porifera	Suberitida	Halichondriidae	Halichondria (Halichondria) panicea
Rhodophyta	Bonnemaisoniales	Bonnemaisoniaceae	Bonnemaisonia hamifera	K3
	Ceramiales	Rhodomelaceae	Ceramium rubrum
		Rhodomelaceae	*Polysiphonia nigrescens*
	Corallinales	Lithothamniaceae	Phymatolithon spp
Tube dwelling diatoms

Species %-coverage included in the JadeWeserPort analysis are shown in bold. Species of the Phylum Phaeophyceae and diatoms built a mat cover on the cubes and were included as such in the statistical analysis. Risk categories are given (K1–K3) [51]

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