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Barnacle - limpet dominated, sometimes mussels, with ''Fucus vesiculosus'' and ''Ascophyllum nodosum. Mastocarpus stellatus'' and ''Palmaria palmata'' patchy in lower part. Usually quite a wide belt (Hiscock, 1996). +
Periodic movement of organisms between alternative habitats e.g. between areas for reproduction and one or more areas of non-reproductive activity, or between areas of foraging and areas used for other activities. Most migrations occur at predictable intervals triggered by stimuli e.g. unfavourable conditions. NB: Movements that do not include an obligatory return journey are classified as dispersal (Baretta-Bekker et al., 1992). +
A type of polychaete larva characterized by numerous long flotation bristles (Stachowitsch, 1992). +
Mixtures of a variety of sediment types, composed of pebble / gravel / sand / mud. This category includes muddy gravels, muddy sandy gravels, gravelly muds, and muddy gravelly sands. +
Skeleton composed of a mixture of any of aragonite, calcite, high magnesium calcite or amorphous CaCO3 +
Traits relating to the mode of life a species exhibits +
Generally coasts facing away from prevailing winds and without a long fetch but where strong winds can be frequent. +
1 to 3 knots (0.5-1.5 m/sec.) +
Organisms that grow by the repeated iteration of parts, e.g. the leaves, shoots and branches of a plant, the polyps of a coral or bryozoan. Modular organisms are almost always branched, though the connections between branches may separate or decay and the separated parts may in many cases then become physiologically independent (Begon ''et al.'', 2005). +
A species which exists to the exclusion of all other species including dense mats or in 100% of survey counts. +
Both male and female reproductive organs in a single individual (animals) or flower (plants) (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998). +
Resembling a crescent moon (see Olenina ''et al.'', 2006) +
Traits that describes specialized mouth parts +
Secretion of a simple or complex mucus mesh to filter food particles from water column (e.g polychaetes ''Chaetopterus'' and larvaceans. +
Mud and sandy muds where mud is the major fraction (see Long, 2006) +
Gravel (30-80%) with mud (see Long, 2006) +
