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Relationship between species richness and: (A) salinity, (B) salinity range, (C) slope, (D) grain size, (E) swash width, (F) sand moisture, (G) wave period and (H) Dean's parameter Ω. Beaches are numbered following Figure 1. Beach 2 was not included in H (see text for details). Statistical details are presented in Table S1.
