East Anglia Offshore Windfarm: Zonal Environmental Assessment Benthic Report
Figure 23 illustrates the distribution of Nephtys cirrosa across the area of interest. Nephtys cirrosa is typically found infaunally in sandy se diments. Figure 14 reve als that this taxon was the se cond most widely occurring organism sampled from across the area of interest.
Figure 23 r eveals that abundance of this taxon was very variable and that this species was found a t the majori ty of stati ons. High abundances of this species were re corded across Area A and across the mai n body of Area B.
Figure 23. The distribution of Nephtys cirrosa abundance from all data acquired during the survey of the EAOW zone, including both the original sampling grid a nd the targeted stations.
