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Some Parameters of the Environment

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Although many features of the marine environment are virtually uniform over wide areas, different parts of the sea are populated by different communities of organisms. The aim of marine ecological studies is to discover what these differences are and why they exist and to evaluate the factors responsible for them. These investigations encounter many difficulties.

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Tait, R.V., De Santo, R.S. (1972). Some Parameters of the Environment. In: Elements of Marine Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8297-3_4

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