These shells don't clam up: Innovative technique to record human impact on coastal waters
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 13:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
With their sedentary lifestyles and filter-feeding habits, clams have been silent witnesses to the changes that humans have inflicted upon their waters. These clams are silent no more, as Dr. Ruth H. Carmichael of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and her colleagues have reported in their recent paper in Aquatic Biology.
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