FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI An estuarine mud flat re-surveyed after forty-five years BT AF METTAM, C AS 1:; FF 1:; IF 0.662 TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00247/35782/34295.pdf LA English DT Article AB 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. PY 1983 SO Oceanologica Acta, Special issue SN 0399-1784 PU Gauthier-Villars ID 35782 ER EF