. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 9.

Published in final edited form as: Deep Sea Res 2 Top Stud Oceanogr. 2010 Nov;57(21-23):1982–1989. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.05.003

Table 2.

Meiobenthic abundance is shown as total abundance, individuals 10 cm⁻² sample area, and ind. 10 cm⁻² surface area for all 13 samples (5 mussel community samples, 5 tubeworm community samples, 3 non-seep sediment samples).

Sample	M-GC1	M-GC2	M-GC3	M-AV1	M-AC1	T-GC1	T-GC2	T-GC3	T-AV1	T-AV2	S-GC1	S-GC2	S-GC3
Total abundance
Nematoda	2	19	723	2513	3087	1005	181	1389	103618	1547	735	1089	1964
Copepoda	240	179	323	519	1229	759	64	153	20461	755	168	253	388
Ostracoda	0	11	14	22	3	3	0	1	1002	22	5	6	5
Halacarida	0	9	31	19	0	7	0	0	0	7	0	0	1
Kinorhyncha	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Total	242	218	1091	3073	4319	1774	245	1543	125081	2331	908	1349	2360
ind. 10 cm⁻² sample area
Nematoda	0.04	0.36	13.62	47.33	58.14	3.59	0.65	4.96	370	5.53	711.52	702.58	1267.10
Copepoda	4.52	3.37	6.08	9.77	23.15	2.71	0.23	0.55	73	2.70	162.63	163.23	250.32
Ostracoda	0.00	0.21	0.26	0.41	0.06	0.01	0.00	0.00	4	0.08	4.84	3.87	3.23
Halacarida	0.00	0.17	0.58	0.36	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00	0	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.65
Kinorhyncha	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0.00	0.00	0.65	1.29
Total	4.56	4.11	20.55	57.87	81.34	6.34	0.88	5.51	447	8.33	878.99	870.32	1522.58
ind. 10 cm⁻² surface area
Total	0.29	0.27	1.02	2.81	2.98	0.24	0.10	0.38	20	0.28	878.99	870.32	1522.58