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Design and Use of an Apparatus for Quantifying Bivalve Suspension Feeding at Sea
Published on: September 5, 2018
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Limits to food production from the sea
Jaap van der Meer1,2,3
1Wageningen Marine Research, Den Helder, The Netherlands. jaap.vandermeer@wur.nl.
Nature Food
|May 2, 2023
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No abstract available in PubMed .
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