Another remarkable component of the assemblage of the northern flank is the soft coral Paralcyonium spinulosum (Fig. 3g), which is generally sparse and rarer than the other Mediterranean species of alcyonaceans [71].
Third, a large-scale, controlled manipulative experiment, where shrimp were harvested from 10,000 m2 plots at intensities commensurate with those from recreational and commercial operators, was done to determine the impacts on different components of the infaunal assemblage.
As the main representative of the components of the pollen assemblage, the A/C ratio can be regarded as a humidity proxy in arid and semi-arid areas (e.g. El-Moslinmany, 1990; Gasse et al., 1991; Van Campo and Gasse, 1993; Li et al., 2005).
The intricate metabolic cascades that have evolved between different components of the microbial assemblage that make up complex microbial mats depend on structural integrity to maintain the physicochemical gradients that drive the system [5], [6], [8].
SVOC exposure may affect metabolism among some components of the bacterial assemblage in submerged sediments (Godoy et al. 1998; Castle et al. 2006; Gomes et al. 2007).
The patterns are stronger for the volcanic components of the artifact assemblages than for the quartzite components, reflecting the additional influence of distance from the local source on quartzite assemblage characteristics reported previously.
Serpentine is ubiquitously a major component of the alteration assemblage as a consequence of the high abundance of olivine in kimberlite.
Vascular epiphytes represent ∼9%% of all vascular plant species (Zotz 2013 b ) and are a very important component of the plant assemblages of tropical wet forests (Gentry and Dodson 1987).
Consequently, the absence of a treatment effect does not exclude the possibility of an underlying detrimental effect on specific components of the dung insect fauna assemblage.
