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Three separate coastal sea areas were investigated in terms of phytobenthic community structure in the waters of the West-Estonian Archipelago in the Baltic Sea. The phytobenthos species composition was similar in the three regions while the structure of the communities referred to different environmental conditions. The classification of the phytobenthic communities in the area was made using cluster analyses. The defined and described 19 classification units were compared with classification systems that have been published before. Most of the classification units defined in the present study were similar to the units defined by other authors. Depth and substrate had considerable influence on the phytobenthic communities in three areas: in the westernmost, exposed sea area phytobenthic communities changed continuously along the depth gradient without forming distinct belts while in the more sheltered central areas wide, depth-related phytobenthos belts were described.
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Martin, G., Torn, K. (2004). Classification and description of phytobenthic communities in the waters of the West-Estonian Archipelago Sea. In: Kautsky, H., Snoeijs, P. (eds) Biology of the Baltic Sea. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 176. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0920-0_14
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