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Macrofauna production in an estuarine mud-flat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. M. Warwick  and
R. Price
R. M. Warwick
Affiliation:
NERC Institute for Marine Environmental Research, Citadel Road, Plymouth, PL1 3DH
R. Price
Affiliation:
NERC Institute for Marine Environmental Research, Citadel Road, Plymouth, PL1 3DH
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The importance of the extensive intertidal mud-flats to the energy budget of estuaries has frequently been stressed, but seldom quantified. Smidt (1951) has discussed the production of both macro- and meiofauna from the Danish Waddens in general terms but, because of the wide coverage, his information is not detailed enough to quantify annual production in terms of g/m2. The present study was designed to compare the productive importance of macrofauna and meiofauna in detail at a single site. This paper deals only with the first phase of this study, the macrofauna, which are retained on a 0.5 mm sieve for the major part of their productive life.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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