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Waddenzee
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Wad·den·zee  (vädn-z)
An inlet of the North Sea off northern Netherlands between the Ijsselmeer and the West Frisian Islands.

Waddenzee (Dutch) [ˈwɑdənzeː]
n
(Placename) the part of the North Sea between the Dutch mainland and the West Frisian Islands


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KEY WORDS: age, Arctica islandica, ocean quahog, mass, respiration, site, temperature INTRODUCTION The ocean quahog Arctica islandica inhabits the continental shelves and slopes at depths between 4-482 m on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean along a latitudinal range to the north from Cape Hatteras (~35[degrees]N), on the western Atlantic coast and from the Wadden Sea near Texel (~54[degrees]N), to the Barents Sea (~70[degrees]N) in the east (Nicol 1951, Thompson et al.
The Wadden Sea in Germany and the Netherlands was listed, with what UNESCO described as "one of the last remaining natural, large-scale, intertidal ecosystems where natural processes continue to function largely undisturbed.
On the tidal migration of young plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) in the Wadden Sea.
 
 
 
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