Research Article

A Comparison of Abundance and Diversity of Epiphytic Microalgal Assemblages on the Leaves of the Seagrasses Posidonia oceanica (L.) and Cymodocea nodosa (Ucria) Asch in Eastern Tunisia

Table 2

SIMPER results.

SpeciesGroup Posidonia Group Cymodocea Av. DissDiss/SDContrib%Cum.%
Av. AbundAv. Abund

Oscillatoria sp.500600030.196.246.8546.85
Navicula sp.3933.33385013.362.0720.7467.59
Fragilaria sp.62503.346.325.1972.78
Pseudanabaena sp.60003.316.495.1377.91
Amphiprora  constricta 45002.485.743.8581.76
Guinardia sp.33.333001.475.12.2984.05
Anabaenasp.30041.671.425.792.2186.26
Pinnularia sp.25001.412.812.1888.44
Amphora sp.1003001.094.251.6990.13