Name: Tidal Flat Ecology: An Experimental Approach to Species Interactions (Ecological Studies) (en Inglés)
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Author: Karsten Reise
ISBN: 9783642704970

portada Tidal Flat Ecology: An Experimental Approach to Species Interactions (Ecological Studies) (en Inglés)

Tidal Flat Ecology: An Experimental Approach to Species Interactions (Ecological Studies) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Springer

Autor

Karsten Reise

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

194

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9783642704970

Categorías

Fauna: animales acuáticos. interés general

Tidal Flat Ecology: An Experimental Approach to Species Interactions (Ecological Studies) (en Inglés)

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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.