Table 1 Mean coverage and confidence intervals (CI) at 95% for sessile organisms present on the niche artificial reefs
From: Ecological succession of benthic organisms on niche-type artificial reefs
Organism coverage (%) | ||||||||
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Biofilm | Indet Hydrozoa | Balanus sp. | Callophyllis sp. | Lithothamnion sp. | Indet Demospongiae 1 | Indet Demospongiae 2 | Phragmatopoma virgini | |
Monitoring | χ ± SD (IC 95%) | χ ± SD (CI 95%) | χ ± SD (CI 95%) | χ ± SD (CI 95%) | χ ± SD (CI 95%) | χ ± SD (CI 95%) | χ ± SD (CI 95%) | χ ± SD (CI 95%) |
1 | 36.41 ± 17.91 (17.41–57.94) | – | 56.20 ± 21.75 (32.47-78.51) | – | – | – | – | 3.54 ± 3.19 (1–7.56) |
2 | 0.31 ± 0.07 (0.19–0.47) | 24.08 ± 6.87 (13.83–36.12) | 45.52 ± 5.11 (34.43–56.83) | 10.94 ± 1.41 (7.52–14.91) | – | 0.32 ± 0.04 (0.22–0.44) | 0.36 ± 0.18 (0.15–0.65) | 11.61 ± 3.06 (6.63–17.77) |
3 | 0.29 ± 0.03 (0.21–0.39) | 61.32 ± 1.79 (54.73–67.70) | 11.67 ± 5.77 (5.11–20.45) | 17.55 ± 3.39 (11.13–25.06) | 0.29 ± 0.03 (0.21–0.40) | 0.82 ± 0.95 (0.18–1.93) | 0.37 ± 0.07 (0.23–0.54) | 1.09 ± 1.24 (0.24–2.54) |
4 | – | 57.63 ± 1.48 (51.59–63-55) | 23.65 ± 3.75 (15.96–32.33) | 12.59 ± 4.73 (6.30–20.66) | – | 0.94 ± 0.87 (0.26–2.05) | – | 0.33 ± 0.09 (0.18–0.53) |
5 | – | 52.5 ± 2.47 (44.65–60.28) | 33.69 ± 3.60 (25.06–42.91) | 4.46 ± 3.13 (1.54–8.81) | 0.80 ± 0.94 (0.17–1.88) | 0.32 ± 0.07 (0.18–0.49) | 0.43 ± 0.16 (0.21–0.73) | 1.92 ± 1.41 (0.64–3.88) |
6 | – | 44.92 ± 6.45 (32.52–57.64) | 9.27 ± 2.97 (4.90–14.85) | 37.55 ± 9.28 (23.46–52.81) | 1.18 ± 1.01 (0.34–2.50) | 0.39 ± 0.09 (0.22–0.61) | 0.36 ± 0.05 (0.24–0.51) | 0.41 ± 0.23 (0.16–0.77) |
7 | – | 67.43 ± 2.51 (59.83–74.60) | 2.85 ± 1.29 (1.27–5.04) | 1.72 ± 3.53 (0.14–5.01) | 2.74 ± 3.03 (0.63–6.29) | 11.29 ± 2.61 (6.71–16.88) | – | 5.04 ± 1.84 (2.50–8.40) |