Author : Mark Seth Lender
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0312656017
The author chronicles the daily life of a salt marsh as observed from his nearby home, where he also records in intricate detail the activities of regional birds.
Author : Kevin Kurtz
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 193435919X
Introduces young readers to hourly changes in the salt marsh as the tide comes and goes, following the animals that have adapted to this ever-changing environment as they hunt for food or play in the sun.
Author : Duncan M. FitzGerald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1316946835
Salt marshes are highly dynamic and important ecosystems that dampen impacts of coastal storms and are an integral part of tidal wetland systems, which sequester half of all global marine carbon. They are now being threatened due to sea-level rise, decreased sediment influx, and human encroachment. This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest salt marsh science, investigating their functions and how they are responding to stresses through formation of salt pannes and pools, headward erosion of tidal creeks, marsh-edge erosion, ice-fracturing, and ice-rafted sedimentation. Written by experts in marsh ecology, coastal geomorphology, wetland biology, estuarine hydrodynamics, and coastal sedimentation, it provides a multidisciplinary summary of recent advancements in our knowledge of salt marshes. The future of wetlands and potential deterioration of salt marshes is also considered, providing a go-to reference for graduate students and researchers studying these coastal systems, as well as marsh managers and restoration scientists.
Author : Paul Adam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1993-07-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521448239
A broad introduction to the ecology of the unique environment of the saltmarsh.
Author : Mildred Teal
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820319612
When Mildred and John Teal moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to a virtually undeveloped landscape of salt marsh, maritime forest, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and beaches. Over the course of a four-year stay their careful observations of the island's unique marine ecology and wonderfully varied flora and fauna became the basis for Portrait of an Island. The island's human history dates back more than four thousand years. The lure of Sapelo has drawn many to its shores, including tobacco millionaire R. J. Reynolds, who established the University of Georgia Marine Institute there in the 1950s. Surrounded by sixteen thousand acres of pristine marsh, Sapelo offers researchers and the public a rare opportunity for environmental studies. Now a state game refuge and national estuarine sanctuary, the island remains a special haven where humans and nature quietly and peacefully coexist. Portrait of an Island is essential reading for anyone who treasures tranquility.
Author : William Dyott
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Mark Seth Lender
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2019-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781732192904
Smeagull the Seagull comes to the house near the shore every day and knocks on the sliding glass door. He knocks when he¿s hungry, and the people who live there feed him. Smeagull rules the roost! Keeping him fed is an exhausting job, but when Smeagull disappears, it makes clear what an important family member Smeagull has become. There are few places on earth without seagulls, both on shore and inland, and every child will find Smeagull captivating and yet familiar. Smeagull the Seagull teaches young children that animals are precious and have needs and feelings and family, just like us.This is a true story. Smeagull is a wild herring gull who does indeed knock at Valerie and Mark¿s house every day where he is fed scraps from sustainable seafood.The book is illustrated in full color by the graphic designer, Valerie Elaine Pettis. The text is written in rhyme by Mark Seth Lender, a published author and producer for wildlife content at Living on Earth, which is nationally broadcast on Public Radio.
Author : J.R. Packham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 1997-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780412579806
Summary: Discusses coastal sand dune, shingle beach, and salt marsh ecosystems, communities based upon relatively unconsolidated granular deposits which frequently rest upon solid rock or, much more rarely, on peat.
Author : J. P. Doody
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1402046030
This book series looks at each of the main coastal habitats – salt marshes, sand dunes and sand/shingle shores, modified coastal grazing marshes/salinas and sea cliffs in turn. Each habitat is described in relation to its natural development and the way this has been influenced by human actions. The different states in which the habitats exist are reviewed against the pressures exerted upon them. Options for management are considered and the likely consequences of taking a particular course of action are highlighted.
Author : Jaime Kigel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351417312
This text is intended for plant physiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, geneticists, horticulturalists, agromnomists and botanists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines. It integrates advances in the diverse and rapidly-expanding field of seed science, from ecological and demographic aspects of seed production, dispersal and germination, to the molecular biology of seed development. The book offers a broad, multidisciplinary approach that covers both theoretical and applied knowledge.
