Plankton Resting Stages in the Marine Sediments of the Bay of Vlorë (Albania)

Table 4

Results of SIMPER analysis for resting stages from surface sediments at stations 40 and 45 in Bay of Vlorë.

Taxa	Av. Abund	Av. Sim	Sim/SD	Contrib%	Cum.%
Station 40
Average similarity: 56.81
Scrippsiella trochoidea medium type	119.92	21.61	7.45	38.05	38.05
Scrippsiella trochoidea small type	67.73	15.81	6.14	27.83	65.87
Scrippsiella trochoidea rough type	35.13	6.44	2.78	11.34	77.21
Pentapharsodinium tyrrhenicum type 1	27.33	5.18	8.96	9.13	86.34
Calciodinellum albatrosianum	24.53	4.94	7.24	8.69	95.03
Station 45
Average similarity: 40.37
Scrippsiella trochoidea medium type	174.21	40.03	5.87	99.16	99.16

Stations 40 and 45
Average dissimilarity = 58.20.