Fluctuations in the distribution and abundance of intertidal barnacles
- 1 February 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 35 (1), 211-229
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400009073
Abstract
It is well known that towards the limits of an animal's geographical range both its abundance and exact boundaries may fluctuate from time to time. These fluctuations can sometimes be correlated with environmental changes, and thus may help to assess the relative importance of the factors that control distribution. For example the distribution of the common intertidal barnaclesChthamalus stellatus(Poli) andBalanus balanoides(Linnaeus) underwent changes which were attributed to a general rise in temperature over several years (Southward & Crisp, 1954a). The abundance of these barnacles has fluctuated further since 1951–52, and we are now able to analyse more closely the relation between the population changes and environmental variations.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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