46855ac311bbe321988de71ceff14173 English 147ced866b31eede9d8f6d8750fd9e14 dataset Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) Data Manager 01752 633102 01752 633291 Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk pointOfContact 2019-08-16 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700 2005 Isles of Scilly intertidal rockpool survey of ciliated protozoa 2005-12-31 publication 2005-01-01 creation 2008-12-31 revision SCILLYATBI00010 http://dassh.ac.uk/ Species presence data collated as part of the Scillies ATBI project Richard M. Warwick The Environment Agency (EA) Rio House Waterside Drive Aztec West Almondsbury BS32 4UD enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk originator Paul Somerfield Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) Ecologist +44 (0)1752 633 100 +44 (0)1752 633101 Prospect Place The Hoe Plymouth PL1 3DH pjso@pml.ac.uk custodian asNeeded Database Documents Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Habitats and biotopes INSPIRE THEMES 2011-02-16 creation Microzooplankton generic abundance in water bodies Plankton abundance per unit volume of the water column SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Released under DASSH terms and conditions https://www.dassh.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions otherRestrictions Released under DASSH terms and conditions https://www.dassh.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions English biota Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Western Channel and Celtic Sea -6.6248 -6.1523 49.8096 50.0360 2005-01-01 2005-12-31 Esteban (2007) Journal of Marine Ecology Progress, Vol. 335 Issue 1 (Pages 133-141) Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) Data Manager 01752 633102 01752 633291 Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk distributor dataset Journal of Marine Ecology Progress Series for Inter-Research by G.F. Esteban and B.J. Finlay on ciliated protozoa in intertidal rockpools in the Isles of Scilly in 2005. ABSTRACT: Marine intertidal rock pools can be found almost worldwide but little is known about the microscopic life forms they support, or the significance of regular tidal inundation. With regard to ciliated Protozoa in rock pools, little progress has been achieved since 1948, when the question was first posed as to how a community of ciliates can remain relatively constant in a rock pool that is flushed twice a day. Here we show that local ciliate species richness is very high and that it may persist over time. This elevated species richness can be attributed to ciliate immigration with the incoming tide, and also to the resident ciliate community that withstands tidal flushing. A 15 cm deep intertidal rock-pool no bigger than 1 m2 on the island of St. Agnes (Scilly Islands, UK) contained at least 85 ciliate species, while a 20 cm-deep rock pool with roughly the same area on Bryher (also in the Scilly Islands) yielded 75 species. More than 20% of the global number of described marine interstitial ciliate species was recorded from these rock pools. We explore the paradox of a persisting community assembly living in an ecosystem that is physically highly dynamic.