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When waves break, their energy gives a push to the water in a direction parallel to the shore, and the repeated breaking of many waves generates a longshore current traveling parallel to the shore.
Patchy Distribution
A spatial distribution pattern where entities are clustered in several small areas, separated by areas with no or low occurrences of these entities.
Growth Rate
The rate at which an organism or any of its parts increases in size or number over a specific period.
Population
A group of individuals of the same species living and interacting in the same geographical area.
Exploitation Competition
Intraspecific competition in which all the individuals in a population “share” the limited resource equally so that at high population densities none of them obtains an adequate amount. Also called scramble competition. Compare with interference competition.
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