Download - Salt Marshes Christopher Bednar. Introduction Environment in the Coastal Intertidal Zone Transitional environment between land and sea Dominated by halophytes.

Salt MarshesSalt MarshesChristopher Bednar

IntroductionIntroductionEnvironment in the Coastal

Intertidal ZoneTransitional environment

between land and seaDominated by halophytesHigh salinityWide range of temperature

Where?Where?

Where? (Again)Where? (Again)Coastal Areas with low-energy tidesRiver DeltasBays

Where Not?Where Not?Sandy BeachesRocky Coasts

OthersOthersEstuariesMangrove ForestBayouBogSwampTidal MarshBrackish Marsh

Danger! Danger!Danger! Danger!People don’t like wetlandsFill and DredgeSan Francisco, Boston, New

Orleans built on Salt MarshesSediment Run OffDevelopment

What to do?What to do?Write lettersDon’t litter….obviouslyGraduate…you were going to do

that anyway…right…? Right?