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Animal abundance and food availability: some comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2001

J.J. Beukema  and
G.C. Cadée
J.J. Beukema
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, PO Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
G.C. Cadée
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, PO Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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We challenge a conclusion reached by Barnes & de Villiers in a paper that was recently published in this Journal, viz that certain benthic invertebrates occur in lower abundances in lagoons than in intertidal soft-bottom areas and that this difference is due to lower food supply at lagoon bottoms. Our experience in the Wadden Sea shows that food does not limit the abundance of primary consumers in areas where environmental conditions are harsh. Such conditions prevail in most of the upper half of the intertidal which is characterized by low abundance of zoobenthos despite a high food supply.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 81 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1065 - 1068
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© 2001 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom