Research Article

Demersal Assemblages on the Soft Bottoms off the Catalan-Levante Coast of the Spanish Mediterranean

Table 5

Average values for the samples of each identified group: Species number ( ), species richness (Margalef index) ( ), Pielou Evenness ( ), and Shannon diversity (Hloge). Data from MEDITS surveys series 2007–2010.

DiversityGroup 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5

(±SD)46.455 (11.859)37.532 (11.486)37.052 (8.434)42.429 (7.746)37.209 (7.405)
(±SD)4.493 (1.010)3.621 (1.096)3.452 (0.762)4.049 (0.722)4.180 (0.733)
(±SD)0.637 (0.112)0.566 (0.141)0.459 (0.144)0.519 (0.135)0.644 (0.089)
Hloge (±SD)2.417 (0.435)2.032 (0.548)1.646 (0.523)1.931 (0.491)2.315 (0.345)