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Recent changes in abundance of intertidal barnacles in south-west England: a possible effect of climatic deterioration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. J. Southward
A. J. Southward
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The Plymouth Laboratory
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Annual surveys carried out in south-west England since 1949 show that the arctic-boreal barnacle, Balanus balanoides, which was uncommon or rare in i960, has increased greatly in abundance during the colder years since then. Its numbers now approach those recorded in the 1930's, and there has been a corresponding reduction in abundance of the warm-water species, Chthamalus stellatus.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , February 1967 , pp. 81 - 95
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1967

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