Figure 1.
Locations of sites in Lyme Bay.
Some symbols overlap at this scale.
Figure 2.
Univariate diversity measures to assess benthic recovery a) Species richness (mean m−2 ± SE) and b) Total abundance of all taxa within frame grabs, (mean m−2 ± SE), over time (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and treatment type (CC = closed control, NC = new closure, NOC = near open control, FOC = far open control).
Table 1.
PERMANOVA of species richness based on Euclidean distance measure.
Table 2.
PERMANOVA of abundance based on Euclidean distance measure.
Figure 3.
nMDS plot illustrating similarities in assemblage composition between Treatments (averaged for site within treatment), (closed control = filled black triangles, new closure = filled grey triangles, near open control = open circle, far open control = open square), over time (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011).
Data were dispersion weighted and square root transformed. Trajectories over time are indicated with lines from 2008 to 2011 for each treatment.
Table 3.
PERMANOVA of assemblage composition based on Bray Curtis similarity measure.
Figure 4.
Relative abundance of sessile indicator species (mean m−2 ± SE) per treatment (CC = closed control (black triangle), NC = new closure (grey triangle), NOC = near open control (white circle), FOC = far open control (white square), per year (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) identified through frame grabs.
Figure 5.
Relative abundance of sessile indicator species (mean m−2 ± SE) per treatment (CC = closed control, NC = new closure, NOC = near open control, FOC = far open control), per year (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) identified through video transects.
Table 4.
Summary of recovery status with evidence from pairwise statistical tests (in supporting information).
Figure 6.
Relative abundance (mean m−2 ± SE) of mobile indicator species per treatment (CC = closed control, NC = new closure, NOC = near open control, FOC = far open control), per year (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011).