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Natural fluctuations in a soft bottom benthic community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. A. Eagle
R. A. Eagle*
Affiliation:
Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
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* Present address: M.A.F.F. Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.
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Benthic faunal communities have usually been described from data collected during a single survey, and it has been assumed that most benthic communities are reasonably stable. However, in areas such as important fishing grounds or around effluent disposal areas where surveys have been repeated periodically, the results quite frequently show marked changes. These do not always correlate to annual breeding cycles but are more unpredictable and of a different period.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , November 1975 , pp. 865 - 878
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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