Thread Drifting by Juvenile Bivalves in the Coos Bay Estuary, Oregon: Species Identification and the Influence of Estuarine Hydrodynamics and Diel Migration

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2012

Authors

Dlouhy, Brittney

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University of Oregon

Abstract

From September 2009 to July 2011 I collected vertically stratified zooplankton samples and recorded estuarine water parameters on a monthly basis in the Coos Bay estuary, Oregon during flood and ebb tides. I identified five taxa of juvenile bivalves in the plankton:

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Bivalves, Estuary, Hydrodynamics, Juveniles, Oregon, Thread-drifting

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