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A biological study of Durvillaea antarctica (Chamisso) Hariot and D ...

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SUCCESSION ON AREAS CLEARED IN SPRING AND SUMMER:<br />

Growth <strong>of</strong> other on four cleared sites at Tautuku.<br />

Each column refers to one site. The data at the is the date<br />

that the D. <strong>antarctica</strong> was cleared. Pie show the percentage<br />

<strong>of</strong> different species along permanent line transects in each<br />

area.<br />

Note the reduction in the area suitable for recolonisation by<br />

in each case, <strong>and</strong> the expansion <strong>of</strong> corallines, Polysiphonia<br />

spp. <strong>and</strong><br />

when the<br />

The frequency <strong>of</strong> these algae declines again<br />

to recolonise the areas (compare the lower<br />

two in Area<br />

LEGEND<br />

Sites suitable for recolonisation by D.<br />

Bare rock, Lithothamnion sp., Bildenbr<strong>and</strong>ia SPA <strong>and</strong><br />

other paint-like encrusting algae.<br />

Articulated corallines. Ballia spp. <strong>and</strong> Chondpia sp.<br />

Leafy red<br />

Giga:rtina spp.<br />

Includes<br />

Mussels <strong>and</strong> barnacles:<br />

aoteanu$, PeY'1Ul eanaliauLus <strong>and</strong><br />

w·····<br />

,~ .'<br />

~ . . . ~ ,<br />

• • • *<br />

Mat<br />

Recolonising Durvil<br />

Note:<br />

The open sector <strong>of</strong> each diagram represents all other

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