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 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Beaches |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard G. Wiegert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Salt marsh animals |
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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 | : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herman Kurz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
This report is part of a series of community profiles on the ecology of wetland and marine communities. This particular profile considers tidal marshes of the southeastern Atlantic coast, from North Carolina south to northern Florida. Alone among the earth's ecosystems, coastal communities are subjected to a bidirectional flooding sometimes occurring twice each day; this flooding affects successional development, species composition, stability, and productivity. In the tidally influenced salt marsh, salinity ranges from less than 1 ppt to that of seawater. Dominant plant species include cordgrasses (Spartina alterniflora and S. cynosuroides), black needlerush (Juncus romerianus), and salt marsh bulrush (Scirpus robustus). Both terrestrail and aquatic animals occur in salt marshes and include herons, egrets ospreys (Pandion haliaetus), bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), alligators (Alligator Mississippiensis), manatees (Trichecus manatus), oysters, mussels, and fiddler crabs. Currently, the only significant direct commercial use of the tidal salt marshes is by crabbers seeking the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, but the marshes are quite important recreationally, aesthetically, and educationally. 151 refs., 45 figs., 6 tabs.
Author | : W. W. Woodhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Marsh ecology |
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Author | : Todd Ballantine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781611171563 |
Tideland Treasure is an illustrated guide to the beaches and marshes of the eastern coast of the United States, encompassing seashores and wetlands from Ocean City, New Jersey, to Cape Canaveral, Florida. Rich with true-to-life illustrations and handwritten text, this handsome guidebook captures the nature of the sea, beach, salt marsh, plants, and animals of the region in easy-to-understand text. Common names are used to make the information memorable for casual beachcombers and amateur naturalists alike. This expanded edition includes fifty new color illustrations, a new foreword, five new essays, a new glossary of tideland terms, and a new index of common and scientific names of tideland species.
Author | : Michael J. Ursin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780690489828 |