Concept
Mixed Laminaria hyperborea and Laminaria ochroleuca forest on moderately exposed or sheltered infralittoral rock
| URI | http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/M24/current/IRMIRKRLHYPLOCH/1/ | |
|---|---|---|
| Within Vocab | Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland Version 97.06 | |
| Alternative Labels | IR.MIR.KR.Lhyp.Loch | |
| Definition | Mixed Laminaria hyperborea and Laminaria ochroleuca forest on upper infralittoral moderately exposed or sheltered rock is restricted to the coast of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Superficially, the L. ochroleuca biotope looks similar to a moderately exposed Laminaria hyperborea forest (MIR.Lhyp.Ft), containing a similar suite of foliose and filamentous red algae beneath the canopy. Unlike L. hyperborea, however, L. ochroleuca has a smooth stipe and so it lacks dense assemblages of epiphytic seaweeds. L. ochroleuca occurs across a wide range of wave exposures (in common with L. hyperborea) and consequently it occurs at low abundance in other kelp biotopes (sheltered through to exposed) that occur between Dorset to Lundy. In such cases, records should be considered as regional variations of the usual kelp biotopes. Records should only be assigned to this biotope when the canopy is dominated by L. ochroleuca alone, or by a mixture of both L. hyperborea and L. ochroleuca (though the latter is usually at greater abundance). This biotope is similar to the mixed L. hyperborea and L. ochroleuca biotope found on exposed coasts (EIR.LhypR.Loch), though the latter generally occurs in slightly deeper water (often below pure L. hyperborea - EIR.LhypR.Ft) as L. ochroleuca is less tolerant of strong wave action at its northern distributional limit. Both L. ochroleuca biotopes are common on the Brittany and Normandy coasts. | |
| Date | 2019-11-26T11:41:44 | |
| Identifier | SDN:M24::IRMIRKRLHYPLOCH | |
| Note | accepted | |
| Is Version Of | IRMIRKRLHYPLOCH | |
| version | 1 | |
Alternate Formats
Other formats for this page:
RDF/XML Turtle JSON-LDAlternate Profiles
Other views of this page:
Alternate Profiles ?Different Media Types (HTML, text, RDF, JSON etc.) and different information model views, profiles, are available for this resource.
NVS html view ? Default NVS html view.
