intertidal habitat
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habitat
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/us/ˈhæb.ə.tæt/
the natural environment in which an animal or plant ...
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The keystone species concept: variation in interaction strength in a rockyintertidalhabitat.
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Assuming high mortality among infected juveniles, the rhizocephalans may significantly depress the subtidal population of crabs which, in turn, may affect the abundance also in the adjacentintertidalhabitat.
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Rockyintertidalhabitatprovides firm anchorage for seaweeds, barnacles, and ribbed mussels.
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Gooseneck barnacles compete with a number of other organisms in a complex struggle for survival in the limited available space in their rockyintertidalhabitat.
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Ogden et al. suggest that coastal open-soil agricultural lands supplementintertidalhabitatfrequently used by killdeer during the non-breeding season.
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It might have altered local climate regimes, leading to increased pressure onintertidalhabitate.g. by increased flash floods causing silting of "barranco" mouths and delines in invertebrate populations there.
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It may also enable the creation or recreation of intertidal habitats.
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Agriculture has destroyed grazing marsh whilst the unrelenting rise in the sea level is eliminating the intertidal habitats.
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It is taken as by-catch by inshore trawl fisheries and anglers, and its shallow estuarine and intertidal habitats are vulnerable to coastal development.
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Therefore, intertidal habitats are greatly influenced by human impacts to both ocean and land habitats.
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Due to the global scale of this issue, scientists are mainly working to understand and predict possible changes to intertidal habitats. 2.
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Zoochlorellae are typically found at higher latitudes and in deeper intertidal habitats than zooxanthellae.
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Many land animals also make much use of the shore and intertidal habitats.
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Space competition is especially fierce in rocky intertidal habitats, where habitable space is limited compared to soft-sediment habitats in which three-dimensional space is available.
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Intertidal habitats have been a model system for many classic ecological studies, including those introduced below, because the resident communities are particularly amenable to experimentation.
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The variety of freshwater estuarine intertidal habitats along the island's shores is particularly notable.
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Other smaller habitats include meadows, scrubland, wet flushes, woodland, offshore islands and intertidal habitats.
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