Co-occurrence patterns and the large-scale spatial structure of benthic communities in seagrass meadows and bare sand

Table 1 Species descriptions and information on their occurrences (n sampling locations) and abundances (mean count) in seagrass (coverage at least 33%) and bare-sand systems (0% coverage of seagrass)

			Seagrass	Bare sand
		n-samples	63	279
Species	Abbreviation	Taxonomic group	Occurrence (mean)	Occurrence (mean)
Aglaophamus macroura	aglmac	Polychaetes	16 (0.46)	99 (0.52)
Aonides trifida	aontri	Polychaetes	36 (2.87)	161 (12.35)
Arthritica bifurcata	artbif	Bivalves	15 (0.60)
Austrovenus stutchburyi	ausstu	Bivalves	33 (3.97)	146 (1.71)
“Bumpy” cirrisyllid	bumcir	Polychaetes	15 (0.60)	97 (1.19)
Colurostylus lemurum	collem	Crustaceans		176 (1.63)
Cominella glandiformis	comgla	Gastropods	22 (0.62)
Halicarcinus varius	halvar	Crustaceans	15 (0.40)
Halicarcinus whitei	halwhi	Crustaceans	15 (0.43)
Hesionidea	hesion	Polychaetes		97 (0.68)
Heteromastus filiformis	hetfil	Polychaetes	36 (1.16)	145 (1.44)
Macomona liliana	maclil	Bivalves	61 (3.89)	261 (7.00)
Macroclymenella stewartensis stewardensisstewartensis	macste	Polychaetes	26 (0.97)
Magelona dakini	magdak	Polychaetes		152 (1.66)
Nemertean	nemert	Polychaetes	30 (1.02)	202 (2.19)
Notoacmea scapha	notsca	Gastropods	24 (0.71)
Nucula hartvigiana	nucchar	Bivalves	45 (2.03)	95 (1.65)
Orbinia papillosa	orbpap	Polychaetes		100 (0.95)
Owenia petersonae	owepet	Polychaetes	20 (1.16)
Paphies australis	papaus	Bivalves	19 (0.51)	133 (5.07)
Paracalliope novizealandiae	parnou	Crustaceans	30 (5.22)	103 (1.05)
Phoronis sp.	phoron	Other		91 (1.17)
Platynereis australis	plaaus	Polychaetes	25 (0.59)
Prionospio aucklandica	priauc	Polychaetes	31 (2.37)
Pseudopolydora ‘FAT’	psefat	Polychaetes	27 (1.06)
Soletellina siliqua	solsil	Bivalves		155 (3.56)
Trochodota dendyi	troden	Polychaetes	22 (0.46)

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