Vieira et al. - Priority effects in marine sessile communities

This dataset was used to follow the trajectory, diversity and community structure at experimental units founded by three functionally different species (the colonial ascidian Botrylloides nigrum, the arborescent bryozoan Bugula neritina, and the encrusting bryozoan Schizoporella errata) of two sizes (a proxy of different time-lag between first and subsequent arrivals). Dataset show richness of taxa, cover area as a proxy of relative abundance, survivorship of founder colonies after a month, and number of each founder species recruits and total recruits after a month.