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In the marine environment, the chemical characteristics of the water play a major, if not dominant, role in determining the distributions of living organisms and inorganic precipitates. The most useful chemical descriptors include pH, salinity, alkalinity, and dissolved oxygen.
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Skinner, R.K., Estey, S.J., Schmieder, R.W. (1996). Chemical Analysis of Seawater at Rocas Alijos. In: Schmieder, R.W. (eds) Rocas Alijos. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2917-8_10
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