TI: Structure of the Chondrus crispus community along the central coast of Asturias (N. Spain).
OT: Estructura de la comunidad de Chondrus crispus Stackhouse 1797 en la costa central de Asturias (N de Espana)
AU: Silva,-P.; Fernandez,-C.
SO: INVEST.-PESQ.-BARC.. 1988. vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 123-133
NT: Incl. 27 ref.
LA: Spanish
AB: A typical intertidal community characterized by dominance of Chondrus crispus appears on the central coast of Asturias (N. Spain). It is placed between 0.4 and 0.8 m over the zero tide level. The most important plant and animal species (Chondrus crispus, Corallina elongata, Polysiphonia fructiculosa, Patina pellucida, Tricolia pullus , Barleeia rubra, Bittium reticulatum, Acanthochiton fascicularis, Dynamene bidentata and D. magnitorata ) seems to follow a patchy distribution. The fine scale structure by a polar ordination, shows two elementary units dominated by C. crispus and C. elongata , both overlapping in a "continuum" of vegetation. There were notable differences in the zoobenthos composition depending on the existence of Chondrus vegetation.