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Some pictures taken over time at regen on exposed site

August 2003

Regeneration of Mussel Bed site --

Image below dates from July 2001

 

“Succession”

I will not at present narrate what I think is happening in these pictures – which vary in quality and are confusing as taken from different angles

 

Still there appears to be changes over time that are not accounted for by current paradigms of ecology

Note the role of the barnacle Semibalanus --- is it a “keystone” or a “weed”?

 

And how do these inverts (mussel, and Barnacles) keep from being overgrown by algae?

 

 

 

 

Taken from video image dated July 2000 – more later

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by LG in August and last modified Friday, December 05, 2003