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estuarine biology
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The scientific study or the characteristic life processes of living organisms found in a semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the open sea and within which sea water is measurably diluted with freshwater.

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Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/2969