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• Traits:Straplike  + (In the form of a strap or ribbon.)
• Traits:Whiplike  + (In the form of a whip.)
• Traits:Kleptoparasitism  + (In which the female of one species steals the food reserves or prey of a female of another species, to feed her own progeny (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998))
• Traits:NonSelfing  + (Incapable of self-fertilization, due to physical or temporal separation of gametes, and/or self-incompatability genes)
• Traits:Independant (Free living)  + (Independant, individual organisms)
• Traits:Territorial  + (Independent but maintains a defined territory)
• Traits:NonTerritorial  + (Independent without a defined territory)
• Traits:Meiobiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size between 0.2 and 2.0 mm.)
• Traits:Macrobiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size between 2.0 and 200 mm.)
• Traits:Megabiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size larger than 200 mm.)
• Traits:Microbiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size smaller than 0.2 mm.)
• Traits:Impact  + (Information on the impact of introduced an … Information on the impact of introduced and invasive marine species has been recorded. These include impacts on native species, their habitats and ecosystems, human health and activity, transmission of diseases, etc. Descriptive terms of impacts were standardized and listed in a look-up table. These terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).)
• Traits:Articulate  + (Jointed, arthrous (Holmes, 1979).)
• Traits:Lanceolate  + (Lance shaped and usually elongate (Brusca, 1980).)
• Traits:LargeInsectColonies  + (Large colonies of indivduals cooperating for mutual benefit, made up of thousnads or more individuals, often with a dominant matriach, e.g. social incests , bees etc.)
• Traits:Protonymphon  + (Larval pycnogonid that bears three pairs of appendages, the chelicerae, palps and ovigerous legs (Ruppert & Barnes, 1996).)
• Traits:Clathrate  + (Latticed (Holmes, 1979).)
• Traits:Intermediary  + (Liable to suffer minor damage, chips or cracks as result of physical impacts.)
• Traits:Fragile  + (Likely to break, or crack as a result of physical impact; brittle or friable.)
• Traits:Hyperbenthic  + (Living above but close to the substratum (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Solitary  + (Living alone, not gregarious (Thompson 1995).)
• Traits:Demersal  + (Living at or near the bottom of a sea or lake but having the capacity for active swimming (from Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Gregarious  + (Living in groups or communities, growing in clusters (Thompson, 1995) - where the organisms actively seek out members of the same species as adult or larvae/juveniles for protection from the environment, predators or for breeding)
• Traits:Plankton  + (Living in the fluid medium (water or air) but unable to maintain their position or distribution independently of the movement of the water/air mass (adapted from Lincoln <i>et al.</i>, 1998).)
• Traits:Neustonic  + (Living on or under the surface film of open water.)
• Traits:Epizooic  + (Living on the exterior of a living animal but not parasitic upon it.)
• Traits:Epiphytic  + (Living on the surface of a living plant but not parasitic upon it.)
• Traits:Epilithic  + (Living on the surface of rock or other hard inorganic substrata)
• Traits:Epibenthic  + (Living on the surface of the seabed.)
• Traits:Pleustonic  + (Living permanently at the water surface due to their own buoyancy, normally positioned partly in the water and partly in the air.)
• Traits:Endozoic  + (Living within the body of an animal (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Interstitial  + (Living within the system of cavities and channels formed by the spaces between grains in a sediment (interstitial space).)
• Traits:Macroalgae  + (Macroalgal surfaces, such as kelps and fucoids.)
• Traits:Maerl  + (Maerl beds formed by build up of maerl.)
• Traits:BodyAlgalGravel  + (Maerl; twig-like unattached (free-living) calcareous red algae, often a mixture of species and including species which form a spiky cover on loose small stones - 'hedgehog stones'.)
• Traits:Erect  + (Main visible parts of organism stand upright and above the surface of the substratum.)
• Traits:Spermcast  + (Male gametes are spawned and fertilize eggs within or attached to parent)
• Traits:PseudoArrhenotoky  + (Males develop from diploid fertilized eggs but subsequently eliminate or silence the paternal genome)
• Traits:Multivoltine  + (Many generations per year (Barnes ''et al.'', 2006).)
• Traits:Depth  + (Maximum recorded depth below chart datum (expressed in metres).)
• Traits:Bodylength  + (Maximum recorded linear body length (in millimetres) excluding appendages.)
• Traits:DepthRange  + (Maximum to minimum recorded depth (expressed as metres below chart datum).)
• Traits:DeOxygenationTolerance  + (Min Value)
• Traits:TempRange  + (Min/Max Value)
• Traits:Mixed  + (Mixtures of a variety of sediment types, composed of pebble / gravel / sand / mud. This category includes muddy gravels, muddy sandy gravels, gravelly muds, and muddy gravelly sands.)
• Traits:HardMobile  + (Mobile hard substratum, e.g. cobbles, pebbles that are regularly moved by wave action.)
• Traits:BitingMacerating  + (Mouth parts designed to grasp and macerate food before swallowing (e.g. most vertebrates))
• Traits:BitingPiercing  + (Mouth parts designed to pierce outside of food or prey and feed on internal fluids or tissues)
• Traits:PassiveDrifter  + (Movement dependent on wind or water currents)
• Traits:SandyMud  + (Mud (50-90%) with sand)

• Traits:MudSandyMud  + (Mud and sandy muds where mud is the major fraction (see Long, 2006))

• Traits:GravellyMud  + (Mud with 5-30% gravel (see Long, 2006))
• Traits:VeryWeak  + (Negligible)
• Traits:Nonfeeding  + (Non-feeding life stages (e.g. lecithotroph))
• Traits:Sessile  + (Non-motile; permanently attached at the base (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998) (e.g. ''Caryophyllia'').)
• Traits:ClutchSize  + (Number of eggs laid at one time - in organisms that may lay eggs in one or more batches.)
• Traits:Fecundity  + (Number of eggs reported produced per female per reproductive cycle.)
• Traits:AutomicticParthenogenesis  + (Obligate self-fertilization (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998) in which haploid eggs /gametes are produced by meiosis but diploidy is restored without fertilization.)
• Traits:BurrowDweller  + (Occupies or shares space in burrow constructed by other organisms.)
• Traits:Hadobenthic  + (Occupying the ocean floor at depths exceeding ca 6000 m. Usually in trenches and canyons of the abyssal zone. (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Bathybenthic  + (Occupying the ocean floor from ca 200 - 4000 m depth (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Abyssobenthic  + (Occupying the ocean floor from ca 4000 - 6000 m depth. Usually a more or less flat plain (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:NoViviparousCare  + (Offspring are abandoned by the adult)
• Traits:ViviparousCare  + (Offspring are nurtured and protected by the adult)
• Traits:Semivoltine  + (One generation every two years (Barnes ''et al.'', 2006).)
• Traits:Univoltine  + (One generation per year / annuals (Barnes ''et al.'', 2006).)
• Traits:Pathways/vector  + (One of the most important types of informa … One of the most important types of information in the practical approach to prevention and management of biological invasions is the identity of the pathways of introduction and details of vectors. These are necessary for the prevention of introduction of potentially invasive species and also for the containment of further spread of established invasions. Information on pathways and vectors of introduction of alien species has been recorded for the listed species where information was available. Descriptive terms describing pathways and vectors were standardized and listed as a look-up table. These terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).)
• Traits:ExtremelyExposed  + (Open coastlines which face into the prevai … Open coastlines which face into the prevailing wind and receive both wind-driven waves and oceanic swell without any offshore obstructions such as islands or shallows for several thousand kilometres and where deep water is close to the shore (50 m depth contour within about 300 m).e (50 m depth contour within about 300 m).)
• Traits:Oceanic  + (Open waters beyond the continental shelf.)
• Traits:Hadopelagic  + (Open waters of deep oceanic trenches, from ca 6000 m and below.)
• Traits:Jumper/Hopper  + (Organisms able to undertake a rapid jump or hop several times their own body length, using specialised limbs or appendages (e.g. sand hoppers, spring tails, grass hoppers etc))
• Traits:Colonial (e.g. sea birds)  + (Organisms that come together in large colonies (100 plus individuals) - often in the same area from season to season - usually for breeding purposes)
• Traits:Regenerator  + (Organisms that excavate and maintain burrows in the sediment, which result in sediment transport from depth to the surface (adapted from Kristensen ''et al.'', 2012.)
• Traits:Unitary  + (Organisms that grow by a determinate pathway of development of a tightly canalized adult form, e.g. all arthropods and vertebrates (from Begon ''et al.'', 2005).)
• Traits:Modular  + (Organisms that grow by the repeated iterat … Organisms that grow by the repeated iteration of parts, e.g. the leaves, shoots and branches of a plant, the polyps of a coral or bryozoan. Modular organisms are almost always branched, though the connections between branches may separate or decay and the separated parts may in many cases then become physiologically independent (Begon ''et al.'', 2005).ally independent (Begon ''et al.'', 2005).)
• Traits:BlindEndedVentilation  + (Organisms that live in 'I' or 'J' shaped burrows open at only one end where water is drawn through or diffuses out of the sediment e.g. ''Arenicola marina'' (adapted from Kristensen ''et al.'', 2012).)
• Traits:OpenEndedVentilation  + (Organisms that live in a 'U' or 'Y' shaped burrow where water is drawn through the burrow (adapted from Kristensen ''et al.'', 2012).)
• Traits:DownwardConveyor  + (Organisms that live vertically in the sediment, typically heads-up at the surface, and that ingest particles at the surface and egest them as faeces at depth in the sediment (adapted from Kristensen ''et al.'', 2012).)
• Traits:UpwardsConveyor  + (Organisms that live vertically in the sediment, typically head-down at depth in the sediment, and that transport particles from depth to the sediment surface (adapted from Kristensen ''et al.'', 2012).)
• Traits:SuspensionFeeder  + (Organisms that strain food from the surrounding water. They can range in complexity from sponges and corals to baleen whales. They live on organisms or debris that drifts past them, or they seek out small floating or swimming organisms (Charton, 2001).)
• Traits:Biodiffusor  + (Organisms whose activities that cause cons … Organisms whose activities that cause constant and random local sediment biomixing over short distances resulting in transport of sediment particles, analogous to molecular or eddy diffusion (from Kristensen ''et al.'', 2012). Includes epifaunal biodiffusers e.g. fiddler crabs; surficial biodiffusers e.g. ''Echinocardium''; and gallery biodiffusers e.g. ''Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor''.rs e.g. ''Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor''.)
• Traits:AccessoryFeedingStructures  + (Other structures such as palps, tentacles … Other structures such as palps, tentacles or a radiolar crown ("grooved palps"). There are forms of single pair of grooved palps nearly always attached dorsally or near the junction of the prostomium and peristomium, or multiple grooved palps sometimes forming a crown. Dorso lateral ciliated folds in the roof of the buccal cavity may be present in some polychaetes.cavity may be present in some polychaetes.)
• Traits:BodyShape  + (Overall shape of the individual or colony (modular forms))
• Traits:BirdsDirectiveAnnex3  + (Overall, activities that directly threaten birds, such as their deliberate killing, capture or trade, or the destruction of their nests, are banned. With certain restrictions, Member States can allow some of these activities for 26 species listed here.)
• Traits:Abyssopelagic  + (Overlays the plains of the major ocean basins with a lower boundary of ca 6000 m.)
• Traits:Ectoparasitic  + (Parasitic on the outer surface of its host (adapted from Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Endoparasitic  + (Parasitic within the tissues or organs of its host (see Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:OviparousCare  + (Parents, guard or protect the eggs/clutch e.g. birds, some reptiles)
• Traits:FineCleanSand  + (Particle size 0.063 - 0.5 mm (Hiscock, 1996))
• Traits:MediumCleanSand  + (Particle size 0.25-1mm (Hiscock, 1996))
• Traits:SedimentSoft  + (Particulate solid matter accumulated by natural processes (Hiscock, 1996))
• Traits:Migratory  + (Periodic movement of organisms between alt … Periodic movement of organisms between alternative habitats e.g. between areas for reproduction and one or more areas of non-reproductive activity, or between areas of foraging and areas used for other activities. Most migrations occur at predictable intervals triggered by stimuli e.g. unfavourable conditions. NB: Movements that do not include an obligatory return journey are classified as dispersal (Baretta-Bekker et al., 1992).s dispersal (Baretta-Bekker et al., 1992).)
• Traits:Benthic  + (Pertaining to the sea bed, river bed or lake floor (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Pelagic  + (Pertaining to the water column. Inhabiting the open sea, excluding the sea floor (rephrased from Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:EversiblePharynx  + (Pharynx can be everted to engulf and/or seize food items)
• Traits:EnvironmentalPosition  + (Position relative to substratum or fluid medium (air/water).)
• Traits:Megalopa  + (Post larval stage of decapod Crustacea (Stachowitsch, 1992).)
• Traits:DispersalPotential  + (Potential for dispersal provided by one or more larval/juvenile stages, recorded in m, km.)
• Traits:Predator  + (Predatory behaviour in which one animal species captures a member of another species (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998). OR mobile animals that attack kill and consume individual prey items, usually one at a time.)
• Traits:IUCNRedList  + (Provides taxonomic, conservation status, and distribution information on taxa that are facing a high risk of global extinction. http://www.iucnredlist.org/)
• Traits:OSPARRegionIArcticWaters  + (Region I is the most northerly OSPAR regio … Region I is the most northerly OSPAR region, characterised by its harsh climate and ice coverage although the ecosystems of this region are still rich. In spite of its low population density, human activities such as fishing and offshore petroleum production remain significant.e petroleum production remain significant.)