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Effects of periodic trampling on the abundance of mobile animals within Hormosira banksii dominated rocky intertidal communities

This study assesses the effects of trampling on Hormosira banksii dominated rocky intertidal algal beds within Point Nepean National Park over six summers between 1991 and 1996. This dataset gives the number of mobile animals (N per m2) within beds of Hormosira banksii after exposure to four levels of experimental trampling for 3 and 5 years. Sites were located at Cheviot Beach (Harry's pool, Cheviot Mid) or at Grenade Range, ~ 1 km apart. The number of mobile animals were sampled in the Autumn of 1993 and 1995, after 3 and 5 years of summer trampling, respectively. Trampling increased the abundance of a number of herbivorous molluscs, particularly limpet abundance. The effect of trampling on the abundance of mollusks may be indirect as changes in the abundance of mollusks occurred only after changes in the cover of Hormosira.

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Title Effects of periodic trampling on the abundance of mobile animals within Hormosira banksii dominated rocky intertidal communities
Type Dataset
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Data Status inactive
Update Frequency never
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/55efca25-5ce3-477c-8bc7-b8f7ef0b27ff
Date Published 2017-06-24
Date Updated 2023-08-11
Contact Point
School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
mjkeough@unimelb.edu.au
Temporal Coverage 2017-06-24 19:29:56
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [144.666, -38.314]}
Jurisdiction Commonwealth of Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au
Publisher/Agency School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne