intertidal

How To Use intertidal In A Sentence

• The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living.
• To the right a spit of land stuck out like an impudent tongue, dividing the sea from the intertidal waters. A WOMAN WITHOUT LIES
• Here, specimens of the shallow subtidal-intertidal cockle Katelysia rhytiphora have moved up profile from lagoonal facies into advancing aeolian dune sediments.
• Many of the inhabitants of intertidal sand and mud flats also occur subtidally, where they are joined by tusk shells, awning clams, bittersweets, pen shells, and gastropods such as tons, helmets, harps, olives, volutes, cones and terebras.
• The intertidal zone is heavily stressed and eroded by ice in winter, which favors annuals such as the endemic hairgrass Deschampsia bottnica, found only in the Gulf of Bothnia and eyebright Euphrasia bottnica. Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
• A similar set of tradeoffs may explain why surf smelt, which spawn in fine gravel, can spawn successfully lower in the intertidal zone than grunion, spawning in sand.
• Turtles may hatch from a nest on land in the state of Queensland and scramble down to the sea across intertidal areas that are state managed and controlled.
• Even if an intertidal zone existed, sea ice disturbance, as well as the unstable, gravelly substrate, would make it uninhabitable by intertidal benthos, epifauna, or epiphytes.
• They are found in all seas, at all latitudes, and from the intertidal to the abyssal zone.
• While we are surprised at the inclusion of the intertidal area within the Browse Liquefied Natural Gas Precinct, south of James Price Point, on the heritage register, we accept the minister's decision," Woodside said, adding that its proposed development "can successfully co-exist with the heritage values of the Dampier Peninsula. Australia's West Kimberley Becomes Heritage Site