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IV.—A Fish Cultivation Experiment in an Arm of a Sea-loch. IV. The Bottom Fauna of Kyle Scotnish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

J. E. G. Raymont
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh, and Department of Zoology, University College, Southampton.
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The application of fertilizers to an enclosed sea-loch (Loch Craiglin) led to a marked increase in the density of the bottom fauna (Raymont, 1947, 1949). The rise in the bottom fauna was slow, and this was to be expected, since first a considerably increased density of plankton had to be built up, and only then would the relatively slowly reproducing bottom fauna have a chance to increase in numbers. It seemed clear also from the later work in Loch Craiglin that the beneficial effects of fertilization on the bottom fauna lasted for a considerable time after application of fertilizers had ceased.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1950

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