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Most biology or environmental sciences students will at some time or other visit the shore as part of their education, many taking a formal course in intertidal ecology. One of the reasons why the intertidal area is such a valuable teaching aid is that the distribution patterns of the major groups of organisms change rapidly on the sharp gradients between sea and land and these are clearly modified by wave action. Moreover, these patterns can be easily seen and described — especially the horizontal bands or zones of conspicuous organisms like barnacles and seaweeds on rocky shores.
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Raffaelli, D., Hawkins, S. (1999). Patterns of distribution. In: Intertidal Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1489-6_2
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