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Sediment water, organic and silt/clay contents - There were no statistical differences between patches and non-patches for water content (Figure 8.12(i)), while for the % silt/clay and % organic contents, significantly higher values were found in P. elegans patches throughout the sampling period from April 1997 to August 1998 (Figures 8.12(ii-iii)). Silt/clay content remained at approximately 5% in non-patch samples while it rose to 14.2% ± 0.64% in August 1997 in patches, then slowly decreased to 9.58% ± 0.95% in August 1998. A decreasing trend was observed for the organic content in patches from 3.6% ± 0.19% at the start of the sampling period to 2.4% ± 0.08% in August 1998, although this was always significantly higher than in non-patch sediments, which was consistently around 2%. Redox potentials - Whilst sedimentary variables such as the silt/clay and organic contents showed clear differences between patch and non-patch sediments, the results of the redox measurements were more equivocal. Figures 8.13(i-iii) show that the redox profiles of the two plot types were very similar between April and December 1997. However, during August 1998, the sediments at 1 cm and 2cm depths in P. elegans patches were significantly more reducing than those in non-patch areas, while at the 4cm depth, they were significantly less reducing than non-patch sediments (Figure 8.13(iv)). 223
8 2 1„z 25.5 — 25 — 24.5 — 24 — 23.5 — 23 — 22.5 — 22 — 21.5 — 21 2 1 16 — 14 — 12 — 10 — 8 — 6 — 4 — 3 .5 — 3 — 2 .5 — 2 — 1.5 — — 0.5 — (i) Water content (ii) Silt/clay content 111 Patch Non-patch April August December August April ** August (iii) Organic content * * * December ** E Patch 0 Non-patch August • Patch Non-patch April August December August Figures 8.12(i-iii) : Mean sediment results (±S.E.Mean, n=6) showing the results of statistical tests between patch and non-patch values. ** Denotes a statistical difference between patch and non-patch means using Two-sample t-test at 0.01 level of significance and *** at 0.001. 224
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PROCESSES
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ABSTRACT The spionid polychaete Pyg
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to m
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Results. . 65 Size distribution of
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CHAPTER 9. GENERAL DISCUSSION . . 2
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Figure 5.4 Figure 5.5 Figure 6.1 Fi
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LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1 Statistica
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BACKGROUND CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A
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The scales of observation, or the s
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systematic sampling design to inves
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aised sediment within an otherwise
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Fauchald and Jumars (1979) describe
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Dalmeny House and sewage discharged
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variance (TTLQV) techniques (see Lu
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analysis using Moran's and Geary's
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Holme and McIntyre (1984). Percenta
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Pattern Analysis - Grid Surveys Sur
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Maps produced by kriging and other
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200 180 1160 140 100 1-3 80 g 60 c.
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2.5 1.5 0.5 0 3 T (i) % Silt/clay%
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v : m pattern Id pattern Ip pattern
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The results show that at the smalle
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Nephtys hombergii's spatial distrib
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(vii) G. duebeni (ix) % Organic con
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8m survey - spatial patterns Figure
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(1) P. elegans (iii) L. conchilega
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a) Ts 1.4 0.6 u 0.2 -0.2 1.4 'E5 0.
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200m 150m 100m 50m (ix) C. edule 56
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DISCUSSION The main aims of this st
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formed patches less than 1m2 and th
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stutchbutyi, at Wirroa island, New
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exhibited by the tube-building poly
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CHAPTER 3 THE POPULATION STRUCTURE
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Asexual reproduction by fragmentati
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METHODS Survey design - It has been
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RESULTS The species abundances in e
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corresponds to 44 setigers using Eq
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Reproductive activity of Pygospio e
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P. elegans larvae at Drum Sands hav
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Pygospio elegans showed great seaso
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Previous studies have produced simi
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The sole reliance on a planktonic m
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abundance are highly seasonal, were
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CHAPTER 4 THE EFFECTS OF MACROALGAL
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studies may have been completely di
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METHODS Study site - The exact posi
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1 C N W 4----111" 1.5m 2 NW C Contr
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sediment sampling, together with re
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RESULTS Species abundances - The me
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; 15 35 — 30 — 25 — 10 — 5
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statistical difference from net plo
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Pygospio elegans size distribution
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used, approximately equivalent to t
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artefacts associated with the metho
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present in high numbers around sewa
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lack, hydrogen sulphide-smelling se
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CHAPTER 5 THE EFFECTS OF MACROALGAL
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METHODS Survey design - During late
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The sediments could not be sampled
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RESULTS Species abundances - Table
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35 — *** 30 25 — 1.) = .-c‘l
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Pygospio elegans size distributions
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which is difficult to compare with
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eason why some invertebrates showed
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This study did not set out to expli
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This reliance upon the early establ
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CHAPTER 6 INITIAL COLONISATION OF D
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esulting community at any stage of
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ambient sediment had been removed.
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emoved since they were the only tax
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All statistics were performed using
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RESULTS Univariate analysis of spec
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of non-patch areas (Figure 6.3(vi))
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the individuals colonising patch az
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Multivariate analysis of community
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Month Sample statistic (Global R) N
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observed in this study. How crucial
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Micro-scale spatial patterns of mac
Page 190 and 191: METHODS Experimental design - A pre
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