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Tidal Flat Ecology - An Experimental Approach to Species Interactions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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Tidal Flat Ecology - An Experimental Approach to Species Interactions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Series: Ecological Studies, 54
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The tidal coastline presents a fascinating ecological world. Rocky
shores with their recurrent zonation of algae and sessile
invertebrates demonstrate the orderliness of nature, apparently
obeying general explan atory principles. The niche theory could
just as well have hatched out of the tight species-packing on the
coral reef flats. Fluxes of carbon and nitrogen are best studied in
mangroves and salt marshes with their outstanding primary
productivity; the bare mud and sands of the tidal flats are
different. Their ecological treasures are well concealed, and
perhaps not to everybody's taste. Pick up a piece of tidal sediment
and see how it resembles a large, rotten cheese It smells, is slimy
and sticky, is punched with holes and crowded with various worms.
Tidal flats receive detritus from both the land and the sea. They
sup port a rich benthic community which attracts birds from far
distant breeding grounds, and serves as a nursery for crabs, shrimp
and fish. Tidal flats are a busy ecological turntable. They import
low valued organic matter, and they export well-fed birds to the
land and grown-up fish to the sea. They offer ideal opportunities
for aquaculture but are also used as dumping grounds for industrial
wastes. All this may call for a marine ecologist to investigate the
basic processes involved. Yet there is still another reason."
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