Property:Definition
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Description of the period of time over which larval settlement occurs. +
Duration of the larval stage recorded in days or months. +
A description of the preferred substratum for larval settlement +
A taxon is Least Concern when it has been evaluated against the criteria and does not qualify for critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category. +
Development at the expense of internal resources (i.e. yolk) provided by the female (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993). +
The stages an organism passes through between the production of gametes by one generation and production of gametes by the next generation (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998) +
Traits that describe the life history characteristics of an organism +
Stone-boring; an organism that burrows into rock. +
A species which is observed to have a patchy distribution in terms of being common only at some locations. +
Three location types have been recorded to describe the native range and known introduced range of the species +
Specialist - filter feeding organ e.g. brachiopods, phoronids, bryozoans +
Where the species reduces aquaculture harvest or commercial/recreational gain. +
Where the species degrades amenities associated with public/tourist sites. +
Dominated by animals with no foliose algae but encrusting Rhodophycota patchy in grazed areas. The part of the circalittoral subzone on hard substrata below the maximum depth limit of foliose algae (based on Hiscock, 1985). +
The part of the infralittoral subzone which, on hard substrata, supports scattered kelp plants (a kelp park) or from which kelps are absent altogether and the seabed is dominated by foliose red and brown algae. It may be difficult to distinguish the lower infralittoral where grazing pressure prevents the establishment of foliose algae (based on Hiscock, 1985). +
The lower part of the shore only exposed (emersed) at the lowest part of the tide. +
The bottom of the littoral fringe. In the UK, characterized by he ''Pelvetia/Porphyra'' belt with patchy ''Verrucaria maura'' and ''Fucus spiralis'' (on sheltered shores). ''Verrucaria mucosa'' present above the main barnacle population. May also include salt marsh species on shale/pebbles in shelter (Hiscock, 1996). +
