Biodiversity Trends along the Western European Margin
Figure 3
Variations in species diversity maxima with depth.
(A) The ES50 for the North Sea soft-sediment benthos. The figure shown here excludes the results from the English Channel and therefore has been re-analysed and re-drawn to take this fact into account (see Rees et al. [84] for the full analysis). (B) The ES50 for the soft sediment European continental shelf macrofauna – mean values at 50 m depth bands (adapted from Renaud et al. [53]). (C) The ES41 for the deep Northeast Atlantic comparing macrofaunal results from North (Faroe-Shetland Channel) and South (Rockall Trough) of the Wyville-Thomson Ridge (data provided courtesy of BJ Bett [33]).