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GRAVITY corers are widely used1,2 for the collection of the smallest marine metazoans (meiofauna) from subtidal grounds, and it has been generally accepted that cores which appear undisturbed give reasonably representative samples. But, after comparing gravity cores with samples collected by SCUBA divers, I suggest that this is not so.
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McINTYRE, A. Deficiency of Gravity Corers for sampling Meiobenthos and Sediments. Nature 231, 260 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231260a0
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