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Pelvetia canaliculata on moderately ex-
posed shores.
Our study of the littoral flora confirms
descriptions made by Børgesen (1905) and
Price and Famham (1982). Our findings
agree with the general pattem of distribu-
tion seen in similar areas of neighbouring
shores in westem Norway (e.g. Jorde,
1966; Nerland, 1973; Sivertsen, 1981), Ice-
land (Hansen and Ingolfsson, 1993) and the
northem part of the British Isles (Irvine,
1974; Connor et al., 1996). Compared to
other shores, the most striking features
unique to the littoral zone of the Faroe Is-
lands appear to be 1) the abundant growth
even on sheltered shores of Laminaria dig-
itata and Alaria esculenta, 2) the lack of
dense populations of Fucus serratus, and 3)
the frequent occurrence of many species
over the whole exposure range.
Acknowledgement
This study was part of the FARCOS pro-
ject, supported by Amerada Hess, BP,
Conoco, Mobil, Phillips Petroleum and
Texaco and of the large BioFar 2 project,
supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.
Anne Marie Norby and Signar Heinesen,
Department of Public Works, Tórshavn,
created the digitised map and provided in-
formation about wave amplitudes. The
Danish Navy placed a Zodiac at our dispos-
al. Arne Nørrevang, Michaela Kruskopf,
other colleagues and students assisted dur-
ing the fieldwork and Eivind Oug made
valuable comments about our correspon-
dence analysis and the manuscript. We are
grateful for all the support and assistance.
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