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9 shows the declines for sea vater at 12 localities.
Variability was moderate except for the low values of early
points for the ocean reef st Belle. The slopes were steeper
thea for aster reedings, 8011, or beach sand et most localities.
At Belle, omitting the early ocean reef collections, the slopes
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were as steep as at Leroy, in contrast to the declines for sea
cucumbers, beach sand, and algae, which vere much steeper at
Leroy.
Pigure 10 is a scatter diagram
of the sea water decline data of
Table 5.
The “Belle, outer”
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of Pigure 9, Belle ocean reef.
The regression for all data combined
is shown as well as the steepest
line for all data other than that of
Belle, outer. The data for the sea
water sampling et Eniwetok Atoll
exclusive of Belle ocean reef give a
decline slope of about -2.2.
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