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The earliest work on benthos consisted of collecting samples for systematic and regional distribution studies, and seems to have been influenced by the belief that the bottom of lakes constituted one of the few homogeneous environments. The physical characteristics of the habitat were apparently so consistent in the cool, dark, still depths of the lake that the animals were thought to be evenly distributed around the lake with, perhaps, some consistent change of fauna with depth.
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© 1974 Ralph O. Brinkhurst
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Brinkhurst, R.O. (1974). The Sampling Problem. In: The Benthos of Lakes. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15556-9_7
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