Spatial and Temporal Variability of Shoreline Biota in South and Central Puget Sound; 2001 samples and analyses

Figure 1. Map of the 2001 sample sites. Figure 2. Species richness at the south and east-central Sound sites over 3 years. Figure 3. Cumulative species-richness curves for 3 years at each of the sites sampled in 2001. Figure 4. Species-area curves for each area sampled in 1999 and 2001. Figure 5. Species richness at all sites sampled in 2001. Figure 6. Percentage of the number of taxa that showed significant variation at different levels of analysis. Figure 7. Ordinations of community similarities among years, basins, sites, and transects for the south sound and east side sites. Figure 8. Contour plot of sea surface salinity in June 1999. Figure 9. Results of community similarity ordinations for the basins, sides, and quadrants of Puget Sound. Figure 10. Community ordination at the high-resolution species level, showing sites by site-code. Figure 11. Community ordination from the pristine vs. degraded mud sites. Figure 12. Community-similarity ordinations for the 2001 data based on different levels of resolution. Figure 13. Species richness and Shannon's Diversity index for 2001 sites sampled at high and low resolution. Figure 14. Coefficients of variation for transects across years for 5 common taxa. Figure 15. Coefficients of variation for sites in 2001, based on values at 3 transects per site. Figure 16. Coefficients of variation for three species of capitellid polychaete, based on 21 transects with at least 3 years of data (1999-2001). Figure 17. Coefficients of variation for three species of capitellid polychaete, based on 13 sites with at least 3 transects in 2001. Figure 18. Coefficient of variation for species richness in cores. Figure 19. Coefficient of variation for univariate metrics of assemblage composition in cores. Figure 20. Coefficient of variation for species richness in quadrat cover. Figure 21. Coefficient of variation for univariate metrics of assemblage composition in quadrat cover. Figure 22. Coefficient of variation for species richness in quadrat counts. Figure 23. Coefficient of variation for univariate metrics of assemblage composition in quadrat counts. iii LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Number of low-resolution taxa in each of 5 north-south distribution pattern categories, and each of 10 level-of-variation categories. Table 2. Species contributing more than 2% to the dissimilarity between pristine and degraded beaches. Table 3. Results of ordinations of 2001 data at different taxonomic levels. Table 4. Summary of results of principal components analysis of 13 normalized univariate metrics of community structure. LIST OF APPENDICES (all digital …