SMS-100

Class 23
Thursday
November 20, 2014

TheIntertidalZone:BetweenHighandLowTides

TheIntertidalZone:BetweenHighandLowTides

Two factors of a tides power: steepness of slope and

TheIntertidalZone

Sine Wave

TheIntertidalZone

TheIntertidalZone:e.g.,Motile
speciesseekingshelteratlowtide

TheIntertidalZone:e.g.,flipover
arock:Sessile&Motilespecies:

TheRockyIntertidalZone

The Rocky Intertidal Zone

Exposureto:
Air
Waves

Rocky Intertidal Not very easy on organisms

This includes the factor of dealing with wave energy.

TidePools

TidePools

TidePools

TidePools

TidePools

TidePools

TidePools

RockyIntertidalZonation:

Rockyintertidalzonation:

Rockyintertidalzonation:

Supratidal:SalttolerantLichens

Supratidal Zone

Supratidal Zone

Supratidal Zone

Black Tar Lichens

Attached blue greens

MiddleIntertidal

Barnacles

Blue Mussels

Brown and red

macroalgae

RockyIntertidalZone:CompetitionforSpace(midsummer)

Musselsand
Barnaclesoverlap

RockyIntertidalZone:CompetitionforSpace(midsummer)

MusselsandBarnacles
overlapandcompetewith
oneanotherforspaceon
therocks

RockyIntertidalZone:CompetitionforSpace(latesummer)

RockyIntertidalZone:

Musselswinthecompetitionwithbarnacles
forthiswetspot?

Blue Mussels

RockyIntertidalZone:CompetitionforSpace(earlysummer)
Barnacles competing
with each other

Rocky Intertidal Zone: Competition for Space (early summer)

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RockyIntertidalZone:CompetitionforSpace(earlysummer)

Motileperiwinklesnailsavoiding
desiccationatlowtide
butnotwelks

SoftBottomEnvironments:Intertidal(mudflats)andSubtidal

Mud bottom continuing sub-tidally

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IntertidalMudFlat:

MudFlats:

Soft shell clam: an infaunal

Suspension (filter) Feeder

MudFlats:

Polychaete worm tubes

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MudFlats:

Thinlayerofbrown,
oxygenatedsurface
sediment

Polychaete tube
Black,anoxic
subsurface
sediment

SandyBeaches:(Highenergy)

Supratidal sanddunes:American beachgrass (Ammophila breviligulata)

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Supratidal sanddunes:Beachgrasses
Stabilizesbeachsediment(sand)
againstwindandwaves

American beachgrass (Ammophila breviligulata).

Root and Rhyzome System

Supratidal sanddunes:Beachpeas

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Salt Marshes

Salt Marshes

Spartina
alterniflora

Marsh grasses

Spartina
patens

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Salt Marshes: Growth

Spartina alterniflora
Rootsand
Rhizomes

Peat

Mangroves

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Mangroves

Estuaries

Estuaries:

Well-Mixed

Salt Wedge

Classification based
on Mixing
Partially-Mixed

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Estuaries:

Estuarine
Circulation

Halocline

Estuaries: Amplified flows

Coral Reefs

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Coral Reefs

Coral Reef Distributions:

require >20C water temps

Coral Reefs: Internal structure

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Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs: Anatomy

& Zooxanthellae

Coral Bleaching

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Coral Bleaching on Australias

Great Barrier Reef

Coral Bleaching on Australias

Great Barrier Reef

Temperature Anomaly, 1998 El Nino

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