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der. Further studies are needed to assess experimen- 
tally the relative importance of abiotic versus biotic 
factors in determining the patterns of smooth and 
winter flounder spatial distributions. 
Acknowledgments 
I wish to thank the countless legions of work-study 
students, graduate students, and staff at the Zool- 
ogy Department of the University of New Hampshire 
who assisted at various points in this work. S. Cadrin, 
D. Adams, H. Howell, J. Musick, L. Harris, P. Sale, 
J. Taylor, and three anonymous referees provided 
helpful reviews of the manuscript. The research 
formed part of a dissertation submitted in partial 
fulfillment of the Ph.D. degree, Department of Zool- 
ogy, University of New Hampshire. This work was 
supported in part by a grant from the U. S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service Wallop-Breaux Fund and by a Cen- 
tral University Research Grant from the University 
of New Hampshire. 
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