Table 1.

Experimental design testing how the frequency of disturbance (one or three disturbance events) over a three month period influenced recruitment and community dynamics, when the net severity of disturbance was the same (one disturbance of 100% compared to three disturbances of 33%).

Frequency of disturbance	Timing control	Net-Severity	Month #1	Month #2	Month #3
Triple		50%	17%	17%	17%
		100%	33%	33%	33%
Single	#1	50%	50%
		100%	100%
	#2	50%		50%
		100%		100%
	#3	50%			50%
		100%			100%

Additionally, this was crossed with two different net severities of disturbance (50% or 100%, kelp canopy removal). To account for potential differences due to the timing of disturbance, we implemented timing controls whereby in each month (#1, #2 or #3) a new treatment plot was disturbed once. N = 40, 5 replicates for each treatment. Each row of this table represents one of the eight treatments deployed in the experiment.