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Le 14/01/2014 16:25, Ed and Susan a écrit :
> One extremely ridiculous thing is that the authors say in the title that the
> ³clams² are vanishing, but... they never looked at ANY clams!  Live clams
> were right there in the intertidal zone and could easily have been sampled
> quantitatively during especially low tides using a standard scoop, corer or
> grab, but no attempt was made to do that. Instead, being paleontologists,
> the authors looked only at empty valves in the beach drift. But to say
> anything at all about live clams, you need to look at live clams! Why on
> earth would you count valves in the beach drift when instead you could count
> live clams in their habitat?
>
> Susan J. Hewitt
> NYC

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