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to return to preanoxic levels and for the benthic inver- 

 tebrate community to stabilize to a preanoxic state. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The following are acknowledged for their assistance: 

 Thomas Azarovitz, Valentine Anderson, Charles Byrne, 

 Ann Frame, Clyde MacKenzie, William Phoel, Robert 

 Reid, Leslie Rogers, Malcolm Silverman, James Thomas, 

 Andrew Thoms, and Thomas Wilhelm for collecting or 

 providing data: the many technicians who helped process 

 samples and data; Diane Gibson for typing the many drafts 

 and tables; Michele Cox for preparing the illustrations; 

 and Jack Pearce, Theodore Rice, and Carl Sindermann 

 for their useful comments and criticisms. 



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