Proceedings of the Second Mediterranean Symposium on Marine

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Table 1: Checklist, mean coverage (x %), frequency (f) and total ESG I & ESG II coverage values.
Authors in previous studies noticed a considerable decrease in Chlorophyceae combined
with an increase in Phaeophyceae as <strong>the</strong> distance from <strong>the</strong> town increased (Diannelidis
et al., 1977; Tsekos & Haritonidis, 1974. This trend has also been made clear by <strong>the</strong>
analysis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> visual data in <strong>the</strong> present study (Fig.3).
Fig. 3 : Dominance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> main systematic groups for each station. A considerable decrease in Chlorophyceae
is obvious as distance from <strong>the</strong> town <strong>of</strong> Rhodes (Stations 3 and 4) increases.