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Katsura Matsuda: Master's student. Graduated 2006 | |||
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Comparative physiology of the barnacle, Balanus amphitrite from the Salton Sea and the San Diego coast. Click here to open her Thesis (pdf) |
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Along San Diego Bay, B. amphitrite can be found thriving. Are they able to tolerate the kind of conditions that populations at the Salton Sea survive? The shore of the Salton Sea is covered with barnacle tests and fish bones. Because the bottom substrate of the Salton Sea is soft sediment, there is very little substrata on which B. amphitrite can settle. However, here on the shore, barnacles cover the rocks, large or small, until they, themselves are covered with thick layers of accreted salts.
Photo: S.G. Dunbar |
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