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A new bottom-water sampler for ecologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. W. Murray
J. W. Murray
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Imperial College, London
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In ecological studies of benthonic organisms it is advisable to sample the water immediately above the sediment-water interface rather than centimetres or metres above the bottom. The standard oceanographic water samplers cannot be relied upon to sample at the required level so a new instrument was designed. The instrument here described is a strengthened and simplified version of that described for use in shallow waters (up to 4 m) by Murray (1963). It has been successfully used in waters of up to 60 m deep but should withstand depths of up to 180 m.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , October 1962 , pp. 499 - 501
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1962

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Murray, J. W. 1963. Ecology and systematics of some British Thecamoebinae. (In preparation).Google Scholar