International Journal of Ecology / 2010 / Article / Tab 2 / Research Article
Determining Boundaries between Abundance Biozones Using Minimal Equipment Table 2 Intertidal Benthonic foraminiferal recovery for samples from the Caroni Swamp in which
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20, samples arranged in order of increasing altitude relative to annual mean sea level. The table also shows per sample values of
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Species T1-11 T1-9 T1-10 T1-8 T1-7 T3-12 T2-10 T3-10 T2-6 T2-5 T3-9 T3-8 T3-4 T3-7 T3-5 T3-3 T3-6 T2-4 T2-3 T3-2 T2-2 T1-3 T1-2 Ammoastuta inepta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ammobaculites exiguus 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ammonia sp.265 225 355 174 4 23 0 16 0 13 29 0 0 14 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ammotium cassis 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 5 0 5 0 3 0 0 Ammotium directum 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 18 2 0 4 0 26 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 Ammotium distinctum 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 3 22 6 7 1 8 12 7 0 0 0 16 0 2 4 0 Ammotium diversus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ammotium salsum 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 0 15 0 1 3 0 24 5 0 19 0 33 0 0 Arenoparrella mexicana 0 4 0 0 7 60 7 10 59 6 150 13 0 4 0 25 9 22 89 127 55 60 9 Bolivina inflata 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Elphidium limosum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 Haplophragmoides wilberti 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Heronallenia lingulata 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Involutina minuta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Involutina minutissima 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 Milliammina fusca 0 0 0 0 6 0 3 0 40 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 1 0 0 Quinqueloculina goesi 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 27 0 0 0 0 Rosalina floridana 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 Siphonodosaria sp.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Siphotrochammina lobata 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sulcophax palustris 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Textularia agglutinans 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Textularia candeiana 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Textularia earlandi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Textularia gramen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Triloculina oblonga 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 3 0 0 9 0 1 5 7 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tiphotroca comprimata 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 Trochammina advena 8 7 7 18 3 21 13 31 43 3 143 97 16 18 9 209 20 2 30 69 16 0 0 Trochammina inflata 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 0 0 9 0 0 5 36 2 63 176 34 Altitude above AMSL (m) −1.18 −0.83 −0.81 −0.46 −0.12 −0.09 −0.08 0.03 0.03 0.07 0.08 0.08 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.12 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.19 0.19 0.28 0.34 N 274 239 370 200 25 117 23 69 209 28 377 118 27 67 38 355 42 30 233 227 192 244 43 S 3 4 7 5 6 8 3 7 14 4 9 7 5 9 6 9 5 4 11 6 10 4 2 H 0.16 0.28 0.23 0.50 1.67 1.33 0.95 1.52 1.99 1.26 1.44 0.69 1.04 1.94 1.67 1.30 1.38 0.82 1.84 1.10 1.66 0.72 0.51 E 0.39 0.33 0.18 0.33 0.88 0.47 0.86 0.65 0.52 0.88 0.47 0.29 0.56 0.77 0.88 0.41 0.79 0.57 0.57 0.50 0.52 0.51 0.84 N as percentage of total recovery7.72 6.74 10.43 5.64 0.70 3.30 0.65 1.95 5.89 0.79 10.63 3.33 0.76 1.89 1.07 10.01 1.18 0.85 6.57 6.40 5.41 6.88 1.21
