Table 3. Characteristic macrozoobenthic species associated with broad, meso, small and fine scale MEM models.
| Kaipara | Tauranga | Manukau | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broad | AusMod | AusStu | Euchon | AntAur | AonTri | AusStu | AntAur | AonTri | Aricid |
| HetFil | MacLil | MacSte | Cerato | HetFil | Lumbri | AusStu | BocSyr | BumCir | |
| NucHar | OrbPap | OwePet | Lysian | MacSte | NucHar | CosCon | Dexami | HetFil | |
| PapAus | ParNou | Phoron | PerVal | Phoxoc | ScoCyl | MacLil | MacSte | Nemert | |
| PriAuc | PseFat | SolSil | ScoLel | ZeaSub | NotSca | NucHar | OwePet | ||
| TraOle | TroDen | WaiBre | PriAuc | ||||||
| Meso | AonTri | AusMod | AusStu | AntAur | Cerato | HetFil | AntAur | AonTri | Aricid |
| Euchon | Hesion | HetFil | LasPar | Lumbri | Lysian | AusStu | CosCon | HetFil | |
| MacLil | MagDak | Nemert | MacLil | NucHar | PerVal | MacLil | MacSte | MagDak | |
| NucHar | OwePet | Phoron | Phoxoc | PriAuc | ScoBen | Nemert | NotSca | NucHar | |
| PriAuc | SolSil | ScoCyl | Scolel | ZeaLut | ParNou | PriAuc | SolSil | ||
| ZeaSub | TroDen | ||||||||
| Small | AonTri | AusMod | BumCir | AntAur | AonTri | Cerato | AntAur | AonTri | AusStu |
| Cerato | Euchon | LasPar | ColLem | DilSub | LasPar | BocSyr | CosCon | HetFil | |
| MacLil | MacSte | NicAes | Lumbri | Lysian | MacLil | MacLil | MagDak | NicAes | |
| OrbPap | PapAus | ParNou | PerVal | Phoxoc | PriAuc | NotSca | NucHar | ParLyr | |
| PriAuc | PseThi | ScoBen | ScoCyl | Scolel | ZeaSub | PriAuc | |||
| SolSil | WaiBre | ||||||||
| Fine | AonTri | AusMod | BocSyr | AntAur | AusStu | BocSyr | |||
| BumCir | ColLem | Euchon | ComGla | HalWhi | HetFil | ||||
| MacLil | MacSte | MagDak | MacLil | MacSte | MagDak | ||||
| Nemert | NucHar | OwePet | Nemert | NicAes | NucHar | ||||
| PapAus | ParNou | Phoron | OwePet | ParLyr | PlaAus | ||||
| PseFat | TroDen | PriAuc | PseFat |
Fine scale subset for Tauranga not shown, since none of the environmental variables linked to this scale. Bivalves: AusStu = Austrovenus stutchburyi, LasPar = Lasaea parangaensis, MacLil = Macomona liliana, NucHar = Nucula hartvigiana, PapAus = Paphies australis, SolSil = Soletellina siliqua. Crustaceans: AusMod = Austrominius modestus, ColLem = Colurostylis lemurum, Dexami = Dexaminidea, HalWhi = Halicarcinus whitei, ParNou = Paracalliope nouzealandia, Phoxoc = Phoxocephalidea, WaiBre = Waitangi brevirostris. Polychaetes: AonTri = Aonides trifida, Aricid = Aricidea, BocSyr = Boccardia syrtis, BumCir =“Bumpy cirrisyllid”, Cerato = Ceratonereis sp., Euchon = Euchone sp., CosCon = Cossura consimilis, Hesion = Hesionidea, HetFil = Heteromastus filiformis, Lumbri = Lumbrineridea, Lysian = Lysianassidae, MacSte = Macroclymenella stewartensis, MagDak = Magelona dakini, Nemert = Nemertean, NicAes = Nicon aestuariensis, OrbPap = Orbinia papillosa, OwePet = Owenia petersonae, ParLyr = Paradonereis lyra, PerVal = Perinereis vallata, Phoron = Phoronis sp., PlaAus = Platynereis australis, PriAuc = Prionospio aucklandia, PseFat = Pseudopolydora “fat”, PseThi = Pseudopolydora “thin”, ScoBen = Scolecolepides benhami, ScoCyl = Scoloplos cylindrifer, Scolel = Scolelepis sp., TraOle = Travisia olens, TroDen = Trochodata dendyi. Gastropods: ComGla = Cominella glandiformis, DilSub = Diloma subrostrata, NotSca = Notoacmea scapha, ZeaLut = Zeacumantus lutulentus, ZeaSub = Zeacumantus subcarinatus. Cnidaria: AntAur = Anthopleura aureoradiata.