How To Use Intertidal In A Sentence
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The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living.
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To the right a spit of land stuck out like an impudent tongue, dividing the sea from the intertidal waters.
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Here, specimens of the shallow subtidal-intertidal cockle Katelysia rhytiphora have moved up profile from lagoonal facies into advancing aeolian dune sediments.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They are found in all seas, at all latitudes, and from the intertidal to the abyssal zone.
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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
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Webster discussed the physiological significance of this mechanism of endocrine metabolic adaptation for C. pagurus, which may be repeatedly subjected to short-term emersion and hypoxia in the intertidal zone.
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The intertidal zone supplies fishermen with surf perch, cabezons, blennies, rock fish, pricklebacks, mussels and sea urchins.
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Mudflats lie lower in the upper intertidal zone than marshes and are smooth, almost level surfaces across which tidal creeks meander.
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The owl limpet (Lottia gigantean) which clings to rocks in the ocean intertidal zone has a "right-handed" body organization.
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The coastal intertidal zone is the area between the low and high tide zones that is not quite oceanic and not quite terrestrial.
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Dr. Jeffrey Short, formerly of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and colleagues wrote in their 2007 report that "such persistence can pose a contact hazard to intertidally foraging sea otters, sea ducks, and shorebirds, create a chronic source of low-level contamination, discourage subsistence in a region where use is heavy, and degrade the wilderness character of protected lands.
Bill Chameides: Exxon Valdez 20 Years Later
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The restructuring of the membrane bilayer, which may occur during the tidal cycle, if body temperature fluctuates widely during emersion and immersion, represents a second energetic cost to intertidal species.
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The cardboard box has my old scale and a bunch of containers of all sizes for samples and for use as temporary aquaria for intertidal snails.
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The intertidal zone is between the high-tide and low-tide lines.
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Submerged vegetation consisted of dense beds of eelgrass or green algae which occurred on intertidal mudflat habitat.
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Climate-related, long-term faunal changes in a California rocky intertidal community.
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This one billion year old formation contains calcitic or dolomitic red and green argillites, siltstones and sandstones and represents a subtidal to intertidal setting with occasional subaerial exposure.
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But they have a variety of intertidal wetlands and sandy and rocky coasts of coquina (cemented molluscs).
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
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Shih, H. -T. , 1988. A preliminary report of crabs collected in the intertidal zone at the mouth of Tatu River ( Crustacea : Decapoda) . Bachelor's thesis, Department of Biology, Tunghai University.
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Tiny periwinkles, found in profusion in intertidal areas, are gastropods; as are giant tun shells from the deep waters and the quiet limpets who cling to rocks at low tide.
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The low number of benthic macrofauna species in the arctic intertidal zone is usually attributed to ice scouring
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Marine iguanas have to run towards the intertidal areas between huge breaking waves, need to sprint to crevices or behind rocks to avoid being swept away, and have to grip the intertidal rocks as strongly as possible to resist wave drag.
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Fish species such as galjoen, white steenbras and spotted grunter that feed within the intertidal zone cannot survive where the beach has been denuded.
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Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
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Neither feeding away from the intertidal zone nor a close association with colonial birds and mammals has been reported in either nigrofumosus or taczanowskii.
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Only tiny phytoplankton are found throughout the area, although intertidal zones in the south contain kelp beds.
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Mangroves have been converted to shrimp aquacultural ponds, while intertidal mudflats have been extensively afforested with mangrove or intensely fished by lines of stack nets, which severely impacts their value as feeding habitat for migratory waterbirds and other species.
Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
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Last week at the west coast of Florida I spent many hours watching, photographing, collecting, examining and measuring intertidal snails and also performing simple experiments with them à la Darwin.
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While submerged during high tide, an intertidal organism is likely to display a body temperature similar to that of the surrounding water.
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This one billion year old formation contains calcitic or dolomitic red and green argillites, siltstones and sandstones and represents a subtidal to intertidal setting with occasional subaerial exposure.
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Some boring shellfish bore with chemistry, but the American piddock is a mechanical borer repetitively grinding its shell with a rotating movement backward and forward to create a burrow for itself in softer substrates in the shallows of the intertidal zones.
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Fish species such as galjoen, white steenbras and spotted grunter that feed within the intertidal zone cannot survive where the beach has been denuded.
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Giant kelp and seaweed are common, especially in intertidal zones.
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This member of the Piddock family lives intertidally in mud and peat banks.
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Marine ecologists have long regarded the stresses imposed by abiotic factors like temperature to play pivotal roles in establishing the upper limits to zonation in the intertidal zone.
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For example, benthic diatoms were present on intertidal mudbanks.
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The harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus californicus inhabits rocky, intertidal splash pools in a patchy distribution along the west coast of North America.
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SNH has recently run a 6-year research program on intertidal, sublittoral and benthic sites with surveys in 1997 and 2000.
St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom
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Knots and turnstones are both medium-sized waders that inhabit intertidal coastal areas outside the breeding season.
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Lingulids are shallow burrowing infaunal filter feeders of the shallow intertidal zone.
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These observations left unresolved the role of chronic sublethal stress or biological factors, e.g., competition and predation, in setting distribution limits in the rocky intertidal zone.
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The coastal intertidal zone is the area between the low and high tide zones that is not quite oceanic and not quite terrestrial.
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Nucella lapillus is an intertidal snail commonly found on the rocky coasts of the North Atlantic.
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In a review article, he concluded that physical factors were most important to determine the upper and lower limits of intertidal communities, but biological factors predominated in life between the tidemarks.
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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.
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The development of Skolithos trace fossils on the upper surface of some beds suggests periodical emergence into an intertidal zone.
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Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
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An intertidal snail shows a dramatic size increase over the past century Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106: 5209-5212 DOI: 10.1073/pnas. 0812137106
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Melongena corona is an intertidal snail common on sandy bottoms around Tampa, Florida.
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The marine red alga Chondrus crispus is an abundant species along the coasts of the North Atlantic and inhabits the intertidal and upper sublittoral zones of rocky shorelines.
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The cardboard box has my old scale and a bunch of containers of all sizes for samples and for use as temporary aquaria for intertidal snails.
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The burrow depth of Uca formosensis reaches approximately one meter in the high intertidal zone.
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The floristics trait of intertidal crabs of the islands in the south of Zhejiang was reported in this paper according to the investigation conducted during 1990-1997.
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Marine sponges are an essential and highly diverse component of marine benthic communities, ranging from the euryhaline estuarine, to intertidal, to the deep-sea.
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The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica.
Península Valdés, Argentina
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At first sight, the Shark Bay stromatolites look like rocks lying in an orderly fashion in the intertidal zone.
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The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living.
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Terrestrial amphibians face a challenge analogous to that of marine intertidal animals, in that they are highly permeable animals in a potentially desiccating environment.
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Also, biofilms differ between incubation sites because an active biofilm did not develop if slides were incubated in a non-adult habitat, such as a sandy intertidal area, but did develop on slides placed at the adult habitat.
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While in Florida 2 weeks ago, I spent quite some time collecting data on the intertidal snail Batillaria minima.
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The latter was dominant at subtidal. area , but fewer at intertidal area.
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Our examples are taken from recent investigations of two key components of rocky intertidal communities, mussels and whelks.
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Aquatic habitats include freshwater (lakes, rivers, streams, muskets, and freshwater marshes) and marine (intertidal and neritic zones, estuaries, fjords and upper inlets).
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, United States
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These observations suggest that some individuals occasionally stray off of the marsh surface, or are inadvertently transported to the lower intertidal zone during ebb tides.
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The intertidal marsh in North Inlet is dominated by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), while the high marsh community contains a mix of species, including smooth cordgrass, black needlerush, sea oxeye, salt grass, salt hay, salt marsh fimbristylis, glassworts, marsh elder and others.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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It lives subtidally (from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged), or occasionally intertidally (the area that is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide).
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Such shelter may be found in estuaries, in embayments, and on sections of open coast which are protected by wide intertidal flats and barrier complexes.
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For example, along the subtidal to intertidal gradient, species replacements are common, and there are many examples of one species in a genus replacing a congener over relatively small vertical ranges where thermal gradients exist.
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These were deposited in lagoonal, intertidal and sabkha environments, respectively, that became established behind the barrier complex.
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When I am down there, I unavoidably get interested in intertidal gastropods.
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Artist Michael Garfield referred to it as "playing hopscotch across illusory divides in the intertidal zone between technology and spirituality, science and art, self and other, individual and collective.
Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity
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You have made it: a quarter mile stretch of sand and intertidal coves, covered in mussels, sea anemones and gooseneck barnacles.
John Bourne: My Gray Whale
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`Diamonds are also won from the sea itself by offshore dredging in what we call the intertidal zone.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Clustering of the intertidal snail Batillaria minima
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These were deposited in lagoonal, intertidal and sabkha environments, respectively, that became established behind the barrier complex.
