Table 12. Relative abundance of the more common taxa of fish larvae and eggs 

 in tidal creeks, channels, and nearshore habitats of Tijuana Estuary. Data 

 from channels and nearshore habitats spanned one year; tidal creek results 

 are explained below. Data from Nordby.in prep. 



Larvae Eggs 



Tidal Near- Tidal Near- 



Creek channel shore Creek Channel shore 



Depth of sampling areas 



Im 



2m 



3-1 Im 



Im 



2m 



3-1 Im 



Community similarities' 



20% 



50% 



55% 



*These data, from two tidal creeks sampled between April 7 and June 26, 1981. 

 were obtained using plankton nets similar to those used in channel and 

 nearshore habitats. The sample size is small. One of the creeks was also 

 sampled from Dec. to Mar. with a channel net (cf, Shenker and Dean 1979), 

 yielding an additional 864 larvae and 455 eggs. »*Combining the two data 

 sets and recalculating similarities between tidal creeks and channels gave 

 larval similarities of 35% and eggs similarities of 45%. 



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