Biodiversity & Conservation

Habitat preferences and distribution

Species composition

Sensitivity

Importance

Laminaria saccharina on reduced or low salinity infralittoral rock

IR.SIR.K.LsacRS

<i>%Laminaria saccharina%</i> on reduced or low salinity infralittoral rock

IR.SIR.K.LsacRS recorded () and expected () distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland

Recorded in several estuaries along the south west coast of Cornwall, on the southern coastline of Wales, in various lochs in the Clyde region and western Scottish coast, as well as in Loch Obisary on the east coast of the Outer Hebrides.

Habitat preferences

Temperature range preferences - No information found

Water clarity preferences - High clarity / Low turbidity
Medium clarity / Medium turbidity
Low clarity / High turbidity

Limiting Nutrients - No information found

Other preferences - None

Additional information

The biotope occurs attached to bedrock and stable boulders and cobbles in wave and tidal stream sheltered areas.

This review can be cited as follows:

Hiscock, K. 2002. Laminaria saccharina on reduced or low salinity infralittoral rock. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 20/05/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatpreferences.php?habitatid=345&code=1997>

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