Beaches and Tidal Marshes of the Atlantic Coast
Author | : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Beaches |
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Author | : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Beaches |
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Author | : Richard G. Wiegert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Salt marsh animals |
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Author | : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Charles Seabrook |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0820345334 |
The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast--its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it "a biological factory without equal." Twice-daily tides carry in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina ( Spartina alterniflora )--a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention, and pollution filtration. Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their living from the coast's bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is becoming scarcer. For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or "improved" for development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly amazing places.
Author | : Denise M. Seliskar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Northwest Coast of North America |
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Author | : Richard G. Wiegert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Salt marsh animals |
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Author | : Richard G. Wiegert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Salt marsh animals |
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Author | : Douglas Wilson Johnson |
Publisher | : New York : J. Wiley |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Coast changes |
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Author | : Mark D. Bertness |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2024-05-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691258864 |
A comprehensive introduction to the natural history and intertidal ecology of East Coast shorelines Atlantic Shorelines is an introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline communities on the East Coast of North America. Writing for a broad audience, Mark Bertness examines how distinctive communities of plants and animals are generated on rocky shores and in salt marshes, mangroves, and soft sediment beaches on Atlantic shorelines. The book provides a comprehensive background for understanding the basic principles of intertidal ecology and the unique conditions faced by intertidal organisms. It describes the history of the Atlantic Coast, tides, and near-shore oceanographic processes that influence shoreline organisms; explains primary production in shoreline systems, intertidal food webs, and the way intertidal organisms survive; sets out the unusual reproductive challenges of living in an intertidal habitat, and the role of recruitment in shaping intertidal communities; and outlines how biological processes like competition, predation, facilitation, and ecosystem engineering generate the spatial structure of intertidal communities. The last part of the book focuses on the ecology of the three main shoreline habitats—rocky shores, soft sediment beaches, and shorelines vegetated with salt marsh plants and mangroves—and discusses in detail conservation issues associated with each of them.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Floods |
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