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Thread drifting by juvenile bivalves in the Coos Bay estuary, Oregon: Species identification and the influence of estuarine hydrodynamics and diel migration

Brittney Lane Dlouhy

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From September 2009 to July 2011 I collected vertically stratified zooplankton samples and recorded estuarine water parameters on a monthly basis in the Coos Bay estuary, Oregon during flood and ebb tides. I identified five taxa of juvenile bivalves in the plankton:

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Key concepts: Diel vertical migration, Estuary, Bay, Oceanography, Juvenile, Geography, Fishery, Environmental science