International Scholarly Research Notices / 2014 / Article / Tab 6 / Research Article
Natural Prey Preferences and Spatial Variability of Predation Pressure by Cyphoma gibbosum (Mollusca: Gastropoda) on Octocoral Communities off La Parguera, Puerto Rico Table 6 Mean percent (%), standard deviation, and standard error of (PP) (K-W;
) for the six octocoral species showing the highest levels of PP within and across reefs.
Species Reef Number of transects Number of colonies Number of colonies (PP) Mean % SD SE G. ventalina Pelotas 12 175 9 4.0% 0.04 0.01 G. ventalina Enrique 12 195 9 3.8% 0.05 0.01 G. ventalina San Cristobal 12 263 9 2.8% 0.04 0.01 G. ventalina Media Luna 12 207 11 3.2% 0.05 0.01 G. ventalina Old Buoy 12 152 32 20.7% 0.19 0.05 G. ventalina Weinberg 12 161 25 16.3% 0.12 0.04 P. acerosa Pelotas 12 58 3 17.4% 0.39 0.11 P. acerosa Enrique 12 83 3 6.3% 0.19 0.05 P. acerosa San Cristobal 12 118 1 2.8% 0.10 0.03 P. acerosa Media Luna 12 76 1 4.2% 0.14 0.04 P. acerosa Old Buoy 12 18 0 0.0% 0.00 0.00 P. acerosa Weinberg 12 44 3 9.5% 0.19 0.06 P. porosa Pelotas 12 25 6 13.7% 0.28 0.08 P. porosa Enrique 12 76 15 23.6% 0.25 0.07 P. porosa San Cristobal 12 106 14 15.7% 0.14 0.04 P. porosa Media Luna 12 76 21 37.3% 0.35 0.10 P. porosa Old Buoy 12 62 11 15.0% 0.22 0.06 P. porosa Weinberg 12 80 9 19.5% 0.19 0.05 P. flexuosa Pelotas 12 23 3 26.7% 0.39 0.11 P. flexuosa Enrique 12 131 23 24.2% 0.32 0.09 P. flexuosa San Cristobal 12 110 14 20.9% 0.28 0.08 P. flexuosa Media Luna 12 140 12 26.0% 0.25 0.07 P. flexuosa Old Buoy 12 48 8 16.7% 0.26 0.08 P. flexuosa Weinberg 12 80 11 21.0% 0.20 0.06 P. americana Pelotas 12 261 18 32.9% 0.32 0.09 P. americana Enrique 12 235 14 6.7% 0.19 0.05 P. americana San Cristobal 12 155 14 11.2% 0.17 0.05 P. americana Media Luna 12 100 21 21.6% 0.32 0.09 P. americana Old Buoy 12 45 10 22.9% 0.29 0.08 P. americana Weinberg 12 31 10 14.0% 0.27 0.07 B. asbestinum Pelotas 12 4 0 0.0% 0.0 0.0 B. asbestinum Enrique 12 21 0 0.0% 0.0 0.0 B. asbestinum
San Cristobal 12 12 5 16.7% 0.31 0.09 B. asbestinum Media Luna 12 46 0 5.6% 0.15
0.04 B. asbestinum Old Buoy 12 10 2 5.6% 0.13 0.04 B. asbestinum Weinberg 12 37 9 21.9% 0.28 0.08
