A further example of the patchiness of plankton distribution 9 



series of continuous samples and often revealing marked unevenness in distribution. 

 The plankton recorder, however, because it samples continuously on an ever-moving 

 banding, cannot show the real degree of patchiness; each section of the banding 



Young Copepoda 

 other than Colonus 



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Fig. 2. Histograms showing the varying numbers of the more important copepods in ihe same series 

 of consecutive net hauls in Fig. 1. The first sample was unfortunately lost by a tube breakage 



before the analysis had been made. 



