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Beach wrack or marine wrack is organic material (e.g. kelp, seagrass, driftwood) and other debris deposited at high tide on beaches and other coastal area. This material acts as a natural input of marine resources into a terrestrial system, providing food and habitat for a variety of coastal organisms.
Iva frutescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Jesuit's bark, [2] bigleaf marsh-elder, [3] and high-tide bush. [4] It grows in coastal eastern North America from Nova Scotia down the eastern coast and along the Gulf Coast to Texas .
The high intertidal zone is submerged at high tide but remains dry for long periods between high tides. [15] Due to the large variance of conditions possible in this region, it is inhabited by resilient wildlife that can withstand these changes such as barnacles, marine snails, mussels and hermit crabs. [15] Tides flow over the middle ...
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Along the Norwegian coast these forests cover 5,800 km 2, [29] and they support large numbers of animals. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Numerous sessile animals (sponges, bryozoans and ascidians) are found on kelp stipes and mobile invertebrate fauna are found in high densities on epiphytic algae on the kelp stipes and on kelp holdfasts. [ 32 ]
The spoonworm Echiurus echiurus was first described by the Prussian naturalist Peter Simon Pallas in 1766; he placed it in the earth worm genus Lumbricus. [5] In the mid-nineteenth century Echiura was placed, alongside Sipuncula and Priapulida, in the now defunct class Gephyrea (meaning a "bridge") in Annelida, because it was believed that they provided a link between annelids and holothurians ...
Salt marsh showing salt pannes and ponds, spartina alternifolia and invasive phragmites communis in foreground. Brackish marsh panne variants occur in brackish marshes (short graminoid variant), one of the native dominant species is spike grass (Distichlis spicata), some brackish marsh pannes are dominated by the narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia) an invasive exotic species.
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