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Muscling in on mussels: new insights into bivalve behaviour using vertebrate remote-sensing technology

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Mandy Kierspel for extensive help with the loggers, Henriette Dries, Stephanie Ismer and Nina Kriegisch for handling mussels and field assistance, and are particularly grateful to Vaccuumschmelze GmbH for help, as always, with the magnets.

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  1. Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA28PP, Wales, UK

    Rory Wilson

  2. Leibnitz Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany

    Penpag Reuter & Martin Wahl

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Wilson, R., Reuter, P. & Wahl, M. Muscling in on mussels: new insights into bivalve behaviour using vertebrate remote-sensing technology. Marine Biology 147, 1165–1172 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-0021-6

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