Dataset on fouling organisms and measurements from Macrofouling communities and the degradation of plastic bags in the sea: an <i>in situ</i> experiment

Includes all data on fouling organisms identified to family level, organisms identified with another taxonomic resolution, as well as data on polymer disintegration

Supplementary material from Macrofouling communities and the degradation of plastic bags in the sea: an <i>in situ</i> experiment

Supplementary figures, statistics tables and other additional informatio

Appendix D. The effect of seed dispersal on persistence time.

The effect of seed dispersal on persistence time

Appendix C. Design of the main experiment.

Design of the main experiment

Appendix A. Supplementary materials, methods, and tables.

Supplementary materials, methods, and tables

protozoa_enviro_data

This file contains a tab-delimited dataset of all environtmental data taken for all samples, including treatment and sampling identification information. This dataset can be merged with protozoa_data.tsv to reproduce the analyses in Petermann et al

protozoa_data.tsv

This file contains a tab-delimited dataset of all protozoa morphospecies counts, as well as sample and treatment information

Mean log-transformed abundance and richness of algae (A, B), amoebae (C, D), flagellates (E, F), ciliates (G, H) and predatory microfauna (I, J).

<p>Those levels are control, predator addition and resource addition. The numbers refer to a 50-μl subsample. Error bars show ± 1 standard error of the mean.</p

Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) representation of community- and species responses to nutrient and predator addition.

<p>Average microfauna communities are shown as large symbols with contours drawn around communities of the same trophic treatment (total n = 27). Species are depicted by smaller symbols coded according to their functional group identity. Stress = 0.10, non-metric fit R² = 0.99, linear fit R² = 0.95.</p

Results of mixed effects model analyses for log-transformed abundance and richness of ciliates and predatory microfauna with “bromeliad” treated as a random effect.

<p>⁺Trophic treatment levels: control, predator addition and resource addition.</p><p>⁺⁺Dispersal levels: control, local dispersal and regional dispersal, P-values<0.05 are printed in bold. ndf = numerator degrees of freedom, ddf = denumerator degrees of freedom</p><p>Results of mixed effects model analyses for log-transformed abundance and richness of ciliates and predatory microfauna with “bromeliad” treated as a random effect.</p