The environmental conditions and substratum upon and within
which marine organisms live varies; each variant has a certain collection of
species associated with it and thus represents a specific habitat.
Habitats are
broad scale descriptions which can often be further defined to the biotope
level. There are a variety of habitats/biotopes that can be encountered whilst
rock pooling around the UK. Descriptions of these can be found within the JNCC marine
habitat classification for Britain and Ireland V4.5 www.jncc.gov.uk/MarineHabitatClassification.
For rock pooling the principal division for broad habitat
types is between Littoral rock and Littoral sediments; the substratum type and
environmental conditions are then further subdivided with the addition of
species list to classify the different habitats/biotopes. |
| Littoral Rock |
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| Littoral Sediment |
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