Table 1.
Presence or absence of the major fauna on pig carcasses in spring and fall in Strait of Georgia at 170 m. F = fall, Sp = spring, A = amphipods, M.m. = Metacarcinus magister (Dana, 1852), P.p. = Pandalus platyceros Brandt, 1851, S.a. = Sebastolobus alascanus Bean, 1890. Relative abundance for most species could only be estimated but is given as approximately x = 1–5, xx = 6–25, xxx = 26–100, xxxx = 101–1000, and xxxxx = many 1000s.
| Day(s) | A | M.m. | P.p. | S.a. | Other Crabs | Other Shrimp | Gastropods | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sp | F | Sp | F | Sp | F | Sp | F | Sp | F | Sp | F | Sp | F | |
| 0 | xx | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| 1 | xxxx | xx | x | x | xx | |||||||||
| 2 | xxxxx | x | xx | xx | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| 3 | xxxxx | xx | x | xx | xxx | x | x | |||||||
| 4 | xxxxx | x | x | xx | xxx | x | ||||||||
| 5 | xxxxx | x | xx | xxx | x | |||||||||
| 6 | xxxxx | x | x | xx | xxx | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| 7 | xxxxx | x | x | xx | xxx | x | x | x | x | |||||
| 8 | xxxxx | x | xx | xx | x | x | x | |||||||
| 9 | xxxxx | x | xx | xx | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| 10 | xxxxx | x | xx | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| 11 | xxxxx | x | xx | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| 12 | xxxx | xx | xx | x | x | |||||||||
| 13–17 | xx | xxxx | xx | x | x | x | x | x | xxxx | |||||
| 18–22 | xxxx | x | x | x | x | xxxx | ||||||||
| 23–27 | xxxx | x | x | x | x | xxxx | ||||||||
| 28–35 | x | x | x | x | x | xx | ||||||||
| 36–55 | x | x | x | xxxx | ||||||||||
| 55–end | x | x | x | x | x | xxxx | ||||||||