Biodiversity & Conservation

Habitat preferences and distribution

Species composition

Sensitivity

Importance

Mixed fucoids, Chorda filum and green seaweeds on reduced salinity infralittoral rock

IR.SIR.Lag.FChoG

Image Sue Scott - Fucoids and Chorda filum submerged. Image width ca 40 cm (foreground).
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IR.SIR.Lag.FChoG recorded () and expected () distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)

Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland

Distribution of the biotope is limited to Scottish lagoons.

Habitat preferences

Temperature range preferences -

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

Limiting Nutrients - Nitrogen (nitrates)
Phosphorus (phosphates)

Other preferences -

Additional information

This review can be cited as follows:

Hill, J.M. 2001. Mixed fucoids, Chorda filum and green seaweeds on reduced 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 25/05/2013]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatpreferences.php?habitatid=356&code=1997>

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