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Feeding relationships between the benthic infauna and the dominant benthic fish of the Rance Estuary (France)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Patrick Le Mao
Patrick Le Mao
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Laboratoire Maritime du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 17 Avenue George V, 35801 Dinard, France
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Introduction

The maritime basin of the Ranee occupies one of the largest rias of northern Brittany (France) and since 1967, has been the location of a tidal power station. At a high tide height of 13.5 m above chart datum the basin occupies an area of 22 km2 within which Retière (1979) recognized a maritime part of about 17 km2 in extent, where bottom salinities range from 30 to 35‰, an estuarine part with salinities between 20-30‰,, of about 4 km2 and an inner estuary of limited area (1.5 km2) and reduced salinities (less than 20‰).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , May 1986 , pp. 391 - 401
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1986

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