Recruitment of invertebrate epibiont (A) abundances and (B) richness on artificial seagrass in a meadow and isolated patches.

Both abundance and richness were higher in meadow habitats than isolated habitats. Abundances are expressed as the mean number of individuals recruiting to each habitat type per two-week period across the 8-week experimental timeframe. Richness is expressed as the mean number of species recruiting to each habitat type per two-week period across the 8-week experimental timeframe. Meadow are ASUs 10m within the continuous meadow, low isolation are patches 10m away from the meadow, high isolation are patches 25m away from the meadow. Error bars indicate standard error (N = 58) and letters above bars indicate significant differences among treatments at α = 0.05.