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much shorter, day-to-day, temporal scales and that 

 interannual recruitment differences in species with 

 life histories similar to bay anchovy could depend 

 upon the variable conditions faced by daily cohorts 

 during each summer's spawning season. 



Acknowledgments 



Research was supported by National Science Foun- 

 dation grants OCE87-01304 and OCE92-03307. We 

 thank R. E. Ulanowicz and J. E. Purcell for their re- 

 views of the research in progress. We acknowledge 

 the crew of the RV Henlopen for their capable sup- 

 port. L. Fernandez, F. Younger, M. Trice, and S. Leach 

 assisted in the preparation of this manuscript. 



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