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Culture of Salt Marsh Microorganisms and Micrometazoa

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Culture of Marine Invertebrate Animals

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In the Northeastern United States there is an ever growing interest in the preservation and management of those remaining marine wetlands which have escaped “development” in one form or another. Even today many governmental units view the wetlands as the least expensive solution to many pressing social problems such as solid waste disposal, public housing, expansion of public transportation facilities, and valuable real estate. In spite of these needs the renaissance of interest in preservation of salt marshes stems from an awareness that salt marshes and associated shallow embayments are important links in the coastal marine food web and a recognition that domestic industrial and governmental sources of pollution have had a strong impact on the productivity of those marshes which remain.

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  1. Biology Department, City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, USA

    John J. Lee

  2. New York Institute of Technology, Wheatley Road, Old West bury, New York, USA

    William A. Muller

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  1. Head, Department of Marine Science and Technology, Suffolk County Community College Selden, New York, USA

    Walter L. Smith

  2. Shelter Island Oyster Company, Greenport, New York, USA

    Matoira H. Chanley

  3. Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    Matoira H. Chanley

  4. Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, USA

    Matoira H. Chanley

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Lee, J.J., Muller, W.A. (1975). Culture of Salt Marsh Microorganisms and Micrometazoa. In: Smith, W.L., Chanley, M.H. (eds) Culture of Marine Invertebrate Animals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8714-9_6

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