Spatial and temporal dynamics of Antarctic shallow soft-bottom benthic communities: ecological drivers under climate change

Table 1 Number of samples (n), Total number of families (S), Mean number of individuals in 0.25 m² (N), Margalef’s index of Species richness (d), Pielou’s evenness (J′), Shannon diversity index (H′), Simpson dominance index (D) and associated standard deviations from each site studied

Site/Cove	n	S	N	d	J′	H′(loge)	D
South Cove	30	51	349.6 ± 213	3.27 ± 0.58	0.67 ± 0.09	1.97 ± 0.26	0.22 ± 0.07
A	10	41	246.6 ± 160.33	3.47 ± 0.5	0.71 ± 0.08	2.11 ± 0.25	0.19 ± 0.07
B	9	33	432.2 ± 180.83	3.17 ± 0.45	0.61 ± 0.09	1.83 ± 0.29	0.26 ± 0.08
C	11	45	375.7 ± 254.5	3.18 ± 0.2	0.67 ± 0.07	1.95 ± 0.19	0.21 ± 0.04
Hangar Cove	21	49	2145.1 ± 1118.36	2.73 ± 0.36	0.46 ± 0.12	1.41 ± 0.34	0.41 ± 0.14
D	10	39	2448.6 ± 1196.06	2.75 ± 0.38	0.47 ± 0.12	1.44 ± 0.37	0.39 ± 0.15
E	8	41	2089 ± 1071.18	2.7 ± 0.41	0.44 ± 0.13	1.32 ± 0.33	0.47 ± 0.14
F	3	28	1283 ± 682.44	2.77 ± 0.26	0.52 ± 0.07	1.57 ± 0.23	0.33 ± 0.07

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