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Fluctuations in the distribution and abundance of intertidal barnacles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. J. Southward  and
D. J. Crisp
A. J. Southward
Affiliation:
From the Plymouth Laboratory and the Marine Biology Station (University College of North Wales), Menai Bridge, Anglesey
D. J. Crisp
Affiliation:
From the Plymouth Laboratory and the Marine Biology Station (University College of North Wales), Menai Bridge, Anglesey
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It is well known that towards the limits of an animal's geographical range both its abundance and exact boundaries may fluctuate from time to time. These fluctuations can sometimes be correlated with environmental changes, and thus may help to assess the relative importance of the factors that control distribution. For example the distribution of the common intertidal barnacles Chthamalus stellatus (Poli) and Balanus balanoides (Linnaeus) underwent changes which were attributed to a general rise in temperature over several years (Southward & Crisp, 1954a). The abundance of these barnacles has fluctuated further since 1951–52, and we are now able to analyse more closely the relation between the population changes and environmental variations.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 1956 , pp. 211 - 229
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1956

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