A multidisciplinary review of salt marshes, describing how they function and respond to external pressures such as sea-level rise.
"Human Impacts on Salt Marshes provides an excellent global synthesis of an important, underappreciated environmental problem and suggests solutions to the diverse threats affecting salt marshes."—Peter B. Moyle, University of California, ...
The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast—its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival.
Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast Charles Seabrook ... Harris himself became an outcast in his own law firm and felt forced to resign.8 But Harris also had his legion of supporters.
This volume is intended to serve as a synthesis of our current understanding of the ecological role of salt marshes, and will, it is hoped, pave the way for a new generation of research.
Readers can get down and dirty in this guidebook that reveals the secret lives of salt marshes--homes to strange birds and unusual vegetation.
Introduces young readers to hourly changes in the salt marsh as the tide comes and goes, following the animals that have adapted to this ever-changing environment as they hunt for food or play in the sun.
This book is a narrative told from the point of view of a young girl who is showing her visiting cousin a Georgia coastal salt marsh.
"At low tide, the wind blowing across Spartina grass sounds like wind of the prairie. When the tide is in, the gentle music of moving water is added to the...