Habitat point records from 1965-70 DAFS Scottish littoral sediment survey
The study of a number of sandy beaches covering a range of environmental conditions revealed faunistic variation which reflected the different species' tolerance of or preference for the conditions prevailing on particular beaches. Whenever a balanced situation in the environmental conditions existed, especially between shelter and exposure, a typical marine north-temperate water community characterised by the bivalve Tellina tenuis was present. This comunity included a basic faunistic complement consisting of polychaetes (both sessile and errant) on the mid and lower shore, and a few crustaceans on the upper shore. Severe exposure restricts diversity, eliminating sedentary forms, especially bivalve molluscs and, encouraging the numerical dominance of agile swimmers such as haustoriid amphipods and isopods. These species have a short life-span and the fauna is characterised by its flexibility. Extreme shelter favours the establishment of a predominantly sessile community of polychaetes and long-living bivalves.
dataset
name: 1965-70-DAFS-Scottish-littoral-sediment-survey.csv
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Eleftheriou, McIntyre (1976) The intertidal fauna of sandy beaches - a survey of the Scottish coast
oceans
Marine
Marine Recorder
JNCCMNCR10000326
Habitat
MNCR
-7.430422549
-2.001723168
58.70189748
54.47139107
1965-03-10
1970-04-08
publication
2014-09-29
This survey was extracted from a Marine Recorder snapshot.
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