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A comparative study of the closure responses of some cirripede species exposed to falling seawater concentrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

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

Extract

The closure response to low external salinity of three species of intertidal and estuarine barnacle (Balanus balanoides, B. crenatus and Elminius modestus) when exposed to various rates of salinity change were investigated. Comparisons were made between the responses of specimens collected from estuarine and coastal sites. In addition the responses of the brackish water barnacle Balanus improvisus were measured.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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