Benthic species in estuaries may be adapted to estuarine flow of larvae to the coastal zone
A) By crawling within the sediment toward higher salinity
B) By having planktonic larvae rise with the flooding tide and staying near the bottom on the falling tide
C) By never living on the sediment surface
D) By digging deeper than in open marine sediments
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