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A Comparison of the Intertidal Harpacticoid Copepod Assemblages of Sandy Beaches in Galway Bay (Ireland) And Northern Brittany (France)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. Bodin  and
D.F. Jackson
P. Bodin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6 Avenue Le Gorgeu, 29287 Brest Cedex, France
D.F. Jackson
Affiliation:
Zoology Department, University College of Galway, Ireland
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The comparative research programme on harpacticoid copepod assemblages of the west coast of Ireland and northern Finistere began in 1982. During 1981 in Galway, D. Jackson sampled three sandy beaches around Galway Bay (Figure 1), Grattan Road Strand, Silver Strand and An Poll Brean (on Mweenish Island) near Carna (simply called Carna in the following text) and was preparing his PhD thesis (Jackson, 1985). Between 1978 and 1984 in Brittany, P. Bodin had been conducting a long-term ecological survey (Bodin, 1988) of three sandy beaches polluted by the 'Amoco Cadiz' oil spill; Brouennou, Corn ar Gazel and Kersaint (Figure 2). As these six beaches shared common characteristics of granulometry, salinity, temperature and hydrodynamics, it was decided to undertake a comparative study of the systematics, ecology and biology of their harpacticoid copepod assemblages.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , August 1989 , pp. 573 - 588
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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