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Explorations in methods	Using digital camera
	Of interest are all the limpet age classes

Note the tape – meant as ‘co-ordinates’

When you look close there are huge numbers of ‘critters’.

Two problems suggest themselves:

· What is the variation in single species

· How vary over time?

“cheap” digital photography may be method to follow ‘individuals’ or at least small populations

	Closer look
	The general site does not look too promising—the large Semibalanus barnacles visually dominate --- and finer matrix of small barnacles (Chthalamus and Balanus) make section seem blah—but closer look shows lots of limpets of all age classes and several species; plus the periwinkles and predatory snails are prominent

Finger Limpets

Lower in Intertidal


	“Persona Limpets”

Created by LG on 4/6/2004

Last updated on Friday, May 14, 2004