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composition varied substantially among the southern New England flats (Table 4-3) and 

 like the smdy area flats, was dominated either by annelids or molluscs (Bowen, Pembroke, 

 and Kinner, 1989). 



Table 4-1 . Diversity and Abundance of North Atlantic Intertidal Flat Infauna 



Reference 



Diversity (H') 



Abundance (XlOVm') 



Larsen and Doggett (1991) 







Kittery 



2.66 



1 



Falmouth 



2.46 



5 



Boothbay Harbor 



2.44 



5.5 



East Friendship 



2.26 



22 



Addison 



1.89 



2 



Whitlach (1977) 



1.8-2.1 



1-196 



Sanders et al. (1962) 





7-355 



Ambrose (1984) 



- 



3-38 



Thiel & Wading (1998) 



- 



5-240 



Commito (1982) 



- 



11-20 



Commito & Shrader (1985) 



- 



20-117 



Sheep Island DM 



1.18-2.88 



11-33 



Sheep Island REF 



1.84-3.05 



18-95 



Beals Island DM 



2.87-2.93 



20-44 



Beals Island REF 



2.58-2.79 



25-129 









DM = Constructed Flat 

 REF = Reference Area 



Ecological Monitoring of a Constructed Intertidal Flat at Jonesport, Maine 



