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The Effects of Fluctuating Temperature, Salinity, and Aerial Exposure Upon Larval Release in Balanus Balanoides and Elminius Modestus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. F. Cawthorne
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
J. Davenport
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd

Extract

Intertidal estuarine barnacles suffer cyclic changes in salinity and temperature, the latter being most marked and often quite abrupt at the time of tidal immersion and emersion.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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