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• Traits:NonSelfing  + (Incapable of self-fertilization, due to physical or temporal separation of gametes, and/or self-incompatability genes)
• Traits:Independant (Free living)  + (Independant, individual organisms)
• Traits:Territorial  + (Independent but maintains a defined territory)
• Traits:NonTerritorial  + (Independent without a defined territory)
• Traits:Meiobiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size between 0.2 and 2.0 mm.)
• Traits:Macrobiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size between 2.0 and 200 mm.)
• Traits:Megabiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size larger than 200 mm.)
• Traits:Microbiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size smaller than 0.2 mm.)
• Traits:Impact  + (Information on the impact of introduced an … Information on the impact of introduced and invasive marine species has been recorded. These include impacts on native species, their habitats and ecosystems, human health and activity, transmission of diseases, etc. Descriptive terms of impacts were standardized and listed in a look-up table. These terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).)
• Traits:Articulate  + (Jointed, arthrous (Holmes, 1979).)
• Traits:Lanceolate  + (Lance shaped and usually elongate (Brusca, 1980).)
• Traits:LargeInsectColonies  + (Large colonies of indivduals cooperating for mutual benefit, made up of thousnads or more individuals, often with a dominant matriach, e.g. social incests , bees etc.)
• Traits:Protonymphon  + (Larval pycnogonid that bears three pairs of appendages, the chelicerae, palps and ovigerous legs (Ruppert & Barnes, 1996).)
• Traits:Clathrate  + (Latticed (Holmes, 1979).)
• Traits:Intermediary  + (Liable to suffer minor damage, chips or cracks as result of physical impacts.)
• Traits:Fragile  + (Likely to break, or crack as a result of physical impact; brittle or friable.)
• Traits:Hyperbenthic  + (Living above but close to the substratum (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Solitary  + (Living alone, not gregarious (Thompson 1995).)
• Traits:Demersal  + (Living at or near the bottom of a sea or lake but having the capacity for active swimming (from Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Gregarious  + (Living in groups or communities, growing in clusters (Thompson, 1995) - where the organisms actively seek out members of the same species as adult or larvae/juveniles for protection from the environment, predators or for breeding)
• Traits:Plankton  + (Living in the fluid medium (water or air) but unable to maintain their position or distribution independently of the movement of the water/air mass (adapted from Lincoln <i>et al.</i>, 1998).)
• Traits:Neustonic  + (Living on or under the surface film of open water.)
• Traits:Epizooic  + (Living on the exterior of a living animal but not parasitic upon it.)
• Traits:Epiphytic  + (Living on the surface of a living plant but not parasitic upon it.)
• Traits:Epilithic  + (Living on the surface of rock or other hard inorganic substrata)

• Traits:Epibenthic  + (Living on the surface of the seabed.)
• Traits:Pleustonic  + (Living permanently at the water surface due to their own buoyancy, normally positioned partly in the water and partly in the air.)
• Traits:Endozoic  + (Living within the body of an animal (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Interstitial  + (Living within the system of cavities and channels formed by the spaces between grains in a sediment (interstitial space).)
• Traits:Macroalgae  + (Macroalgal surfaces, such as kelps and fucoids.)
• Traits:Maerl  + (Maerl beds formed by build up of maerl.)
• Traits:BodyAlgalGravel  + (Maerl; twig-like unattached (free-living) calcareous red algae, often a mixture of species and including species which form a spiky cover on loose small stones - 'hedgehog stones'.)
• Traits:Erect  + (Main visible parts of organism stand upright and above the surface of the substratum.)
• Traits:Spermcast  + (Male gametes are spawned and fertilize eggs within or attached to parent)
• Traits:PseudoArrhenotoky  + (Males develop from diploid fertilized eggs but subsequently eliminate or silence the paternal genome)
• Traits:Multivoltine  + (Many generations per year (Barnes ''et al.'', 2006).)
• Traits:Depth  + (Maximum recorded depth below chart datum (expressed in metres).)
• Traits:Bodylength  + (Maximum recorded linear body length (in millimetres) excluding appendages.)
• Traits:DepthRange  + (Maximum to minimum recorded depth (expressed as metres below chart datum).)
• Traits:DeOxygenationTolerance  + (Min Value)
• Traits:TempRange  + (Min/Max Value)
• Traits:Mixed  + (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.)
• Traits:HardMobile  + (Mobile hard substratum, e.g. cobbles, pebbles that are regularly moved by wave action.)
• Traits:BitingMacerating  + (Mouth parts designed to grasp and macerate food before swallowing (e.g. most vertebrates))
• Traits:BitingPiercing  + (Mouth parts designed to pierce outside of food or prey and feed on internal fluids or tissues)
• Traits:PassiveDrifter  + (Movement dependent on wind or water currents)
• Traits:SandyMud  + (Mud (50-90%) with sand)
• Traits:MudSandyMud  + (Mud and sandy muds where mud is the major fraction (see Long, 2006))
• Traits:GravellyMud  + (Mud with 5-30% gravel (see Long, 2006))
• Traits:VeryWeak  + (Negligible)