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Biological Communities: Shallow Soft Bottom Habitats

Shallow Soft Bottom Habitats
Table of Contents

John Oliver & Rikk Kvitek
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
P.O. Box 450, Moss Landing, CA 95039

I. Physical Features of Shallow Soft Bottom Communities

II. Community Zonation

A. Small and Large-scale Geographic Patterns
B. Shallow Crustacean Zone
C. Deeper Polychaete Zone

III. Disruptions of Zonation Pattern

A. Canyon head
B. Wave-protected parts of Monterey Bay
C. Rock-sand ecotone

IV. Long-term Patterns of Natural and Human Disturbance

V. Selected Shallow Soft Bottom Resources


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