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Observations on the population of Scoloplos armiger at Whitstable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. E. Gibbs
P. E. Gibbs
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The Plymouth Laboratory
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The population of Scoloplos armiger O. F. Müller at Whitstable was investigated from January 1964 to April 1965. Initially the population density was high, being over 600/m2, but the numbers sharply declined during the summer of 1964 and by the following winter the density had dropped to under 100/m.2 In addition to this decline, the population structure changed, and the overall effect was a marked reduction in the fecundity of the population. The cause of the high mortality in the summer of 1964 is unknown.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 1968 , pp. 225 - 254
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1968

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