Table 4.3  Mean abundance, (standard error), and percent of total abundance for all common species at the M54 station, by year.  Common taxa are defined as those species comprising 3% or more of the total abundance at a station on any given year.  Percent abundance is given in parentheses.

Taxa                        1996                        mean(stderr)                        Taxa                        1997                        mean(stderr)                       
Gammarus palustris(4.46%)                0.75(0.56)                               Gammarus mucronatus(3.32%)                1.04(1.04)
Monoculodes sp.(8.33%)                   1.39(0.53)                               Gammarus palustris(11.0%)                      3.44(2.59)
Daphnia sp.(3.68%)                             0.61(0.29)                               Oligochaete sp.(17.52%)                           5.48(1.37)
Edotea sp.(3.29%)                                0.55(0.32)                               Marenzellaria virdis(19.69%)                    6.16(2.07)
Oligochaete sp.(10.47%)                     1.74(0.42)                               Mediomastus spp.(12.79%)                      4.0(1.49)
Marenzellaria virdis(43.99%)              7.32(3.87)                               Streblospio benedicti(13.3%)                   4.16(2.12)
Mediomastus spp.(11.05%)                1.84(0.69)

Taxa                        1998                        mean(stderr)                        Taxa                        1999                        mean(stderr)
Gammarus palustris(9.98%)                1.88(1.31)                               Gammarus tigrinus(4.62%)                      0.62(0.4)
Monoculodes sp.(3.10%)                    0.58(0.22)                              Monoculodes edwardsi(4.05%)             0.54(0.19)
Oligochaete sp.(3.33%)                        0.63(0.27)                              Monoculodes sp.(6.36%)                        0.85(0.41)
Marenzellaria virdis(41.69%)               7.83(2.48)                              Mediomastus ambiseta(15.61%)            2.08(0.83)
Mediomastus ambiseta(22.39%)        4.21(1.95)                               Mediomastus spp.(8.67%)                      1.15(0.5)
Mediomastus spp.(6.43%)                  1.21(0.50)                               Parandalia sp.(17.92%)                            2.38(0.6)
                                                                                                                Parandalia sp.A(7.23%)                           0.96(0.43)
                                                                                                                Streblospio benedicti(7.23%)                 0.96(0.52)  

Taxa                        2000                        mean(stderr)
Malacoceros vanderhosti
(5.97%)          3.25(2.44)
Marenzellaria virdis(11.85%)                  6.45(3.55)
Mediomastus ambiseta(49.59%)           27.0(9.71)
Mediomastus spp.(7.35%)                     4.0(2.79)
Streblospio benedicti(8.45%)                 4.6(2.35)