Abstract
An inexpensive and handy technique to study water exchange in the immediate proximity of biological objects inhabiting the sea bottom in marine biological research is considered. The technique is a modification of Muus' [23] method of gypsum-plaster balls and allows for the evaluation of the biologically relevant parameters of the bottom movement of water, namely total water flux, correlation of vertical and horizontal near-bottom transport of water masses, etc. We present an example of its application in the study of the influence of hydrodynamics on the distribution of Millepora hydroids in Vietnamese reefs.
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Moshchenko, A.V. Study of Water Movement in Hydrobiological Research of the Bottom Boundary Layer Using Gypsum-plaster Balls. Russian Journal of Marine Biology 26, 457–464 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009411224794
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