abstract:Fouling communities are communities of organisms found on artificial surfaces like the sides of docks, marinas, harbors, and boats throughout the world. Settlement panels made from a variety of substances have been used to monitor settlement patterns and to examine several community processes (e.
B. trigonusoccupies animportantplaceinfoulingorganismscommunity in Gouqi water, and the biomassalong the coastin summeraccounts for 98.2% of the total biomass of fouling organisms.