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Article: SAND PLANS' EFFECTS STUDIED BEACH RENOURISHMENT CAN THREATEN INVERTEBRATES' SURVIVAL, RESEARCHER SAYS.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- March 21, 1999
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Byline: HART MATTHEWS, STAFF WRITER
NAGS HEAD -- Cinde Donoghue dug for mole crabs and coquina clams on Pea Island for six years.
Not for food. And not for naught.
The former University of Virginia researcher has collected enough details about the lives and life cycles of beach invertebrates to affect how coastal managers plan to pump sand onto the shoreline to rebuild beaches.
``We have greater than 95 percent confidence,'' Donoghue said, ``that a pipeline will cause an immediate decrease of at least 40 percent in mole crabs, coquina clams and ghost crabs. This reduction will last (at least) two months and, on average, 3.7 months.''
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