Author: Nathaniel Southgate ShalerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Beaches and Tidal Marshes of the Atlantic Coast
Author: Nathaniel Southgate ShalerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The World of the Salt Marsh
Author: Charles SeabrookPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343846
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it “a biological factory without equal.” Twice-daily tides carry in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina (Spartina alterniflora)—a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention, and pollution filtration. Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their living from the coast’s bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is becoming scarcer. For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or “improved” for development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly amazing places.
Tideland Treasure
Author: Todd BallantinePublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9780872497955
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A naturalist's guide to the beaches and marshes of the Southeast coast, portraying the nature of the sea, beach, salt marsh, plants, and animals of the area.
Final Report
Author: New Jersey Geological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geological surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Water-supply Paper
Author: Final Report of the State Geologists ... V.1-8
Author: New Jersey. Geological Survey, 1863-1915Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Final Report of the State Geologist
Author: Final Report of the State Geologist
Author: New Jersey. Division of Geology and WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
National Water Summary on Wetland Resources
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780607856965
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description