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Flux of barnacleplate fragments and fecal pellets measured by sediment traps
| Title: | Flux of barnacleplate fragments and fecal pellets measured by sediment traps. |
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| Name(s): |
Hoskin, Charles M. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Date Issued: | 1980 | |
| Publisher: | Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists | |
| Place of Publication: | Tulsa, OK | |
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| Extent: | 7 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | FA00007138 (IID), 10.1306/212F7BB2-2B24-11D7-8648000102C1865D (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Comparison of the flux of broken barnacle plates from a caged living barnacle community
(0.8 g mˉ² dayˉ¹) with a similar but uncaged barnacle community nearby (30 g mˉ² dayˉ¹) suggests that
feeding activity by the sheepshead, a predatory sparid fish, is the chief fragmenter of barnacle plates
caught in 2 x 2.2 m traps. Sediment recovered from an uncaged trap suspended under a floating dock
contained four components. The individual fluxes of these components for the period June
1979-January 1980 was barnacle plates 4-46 g mˉ² dayˉ¹, fragments of the encrusting barnacle
community 0-3. quartz sand 1-4, and mud in the form of barnacle fecal pellets 0.3-7. Summed up, these
materials yield a layer of sediment 8-16 mm thick each year. The flux of broken plates varied from a peak
in late September to a low in December-January, probably due to migration of sheepshead out of the
study area during spawning. Quartz sand found in the traps was shown to be transported by mullet. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 182 This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Hoskin, C. M. (1980). Flux of barnacle plate fragments and fecal pellets measured by sediment traps. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 50(4), 1213-1218. |
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| Subject(s): |
Sediment Fecal pellets, Animal Barnacles Sheepshead (Fish) |
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| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1306/212F7BB2-2B24-11D7-8648000102C1865D | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007138 | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
