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E. nitens at one of the control stations In June. Although faunal similarity 

 analysis revealed a qualitative change in the fauna of the borrow area, this 

 change is not considered detrimental. Conspicuous patterns of heterogeneous 

 faunal distributions were evident in this study, particularly for the bivalve 

 E. nitens. No lasting detrimental effects, in terms of numbers of species, 

 faunal densities, or species diversity, resulted from the dredging operation. 



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