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Establishment of Didemnum in suspended and seabed treatments in summer 2008 at Blackwood Bay.
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posted on 2013-12-12, 03:56 authored by Barrie M. Forrest, Lauren M. Fletcher, Javier Atalah, Richard F. Piola, Grant A. HopkinsPerspex plates were positioned in face-up and face-down orientations, with the seabed treatment including a Cage and No Cage comparison. All plates were exposed to larval recruitment from a floating pontoon approximately 25 m away, for a three month experimental duration. A). Mean Didemnum cover (% cover ±1SE) on plates inoculated with Didemnum fragments. B). Mean density of Didemnum recruits (±1SE) on plates subjected only to ambient larval supply. Different letters (a,b,c) indicate significant differences as indicated by the PERMANOVA post-hoc t-test.