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The Role of Filter-Feeding Organisms in Concentration of Suspended Solids Containing Kepone Into Bottom Deposits

Haven, Dexter S.
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Morales-Alamo, Reinaldo
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Filter-feeding marine animals such as molluscs, tunicates and barnacles filter particles as small as 1 micron from suspension during their feeding process and void them as fecal pellets. These settle at much faster rates than their component particles. Feces or pseudofeces which settle are termed biodeposits. Eighty-two to 93 percent by volume of the particles in the biodeposits of several species of molluscs are smaller than 4 microns; the range in size of those particles is about 1 to 10 microns (Haven and Morales-Alamo, 1973). (...)
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1979
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Research and Technical Reports, Oysters -- Effect of pesticides on, Chlordecone -- Bioaccumulation
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