| Type |
Article |
| Date |
1983 |
| Language |
English |
| Author(s) |
Mettam C |
| Meeting |
17. European Symposium on Marine Biology, Brest (France), 27 Sep 1982 |
| Source |
Oceanologica Acta, Special issue (0399-1784) (Gauthier-Villars), 1983 |
| Abstract |
The distribution of infauna across an estuarine mud flat, described by C. B. Rees in 1940, remains very similar more than 40 years later in spite of environmental changes that have occurred meanwhile. The apparent stability of the distribution and abundance of species is probably related to a constancy in the distribution of sediments on an eroding shoreline. Several species occur at greatest densities in restricted sections of the shore and lower densities elsewhere represent an outward spread of colonising individuals that do not survive to maturity. |
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