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Author : Kevin Kurtz
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781934359198
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.
Author : Judith S Weis,Carol A Butler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813548517
Tall green grass. Subtle melodies of songbirds. Sharp whines of muskrats. Rustles of water running through the grasses. And at low tide, a pungent reminder of the treasures hidden beneath the surface.All are vital signs of the great salt marshes' natural resources. Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of the environmental service and protection they provide, these ecological wonders were once considered unproductive wastelands, home solely to mosquitoes and toxic waste, and mistreated for centuries by the human population. Exploring the fascinating biodiversity of these boggy wetlands, Salt Marshes offers readers a wealth of essential information about a variety of plants, fish, and animals, the importance of these habitats, consequences of human neglect and thoughtless development, and insight into how these wetlands recover. Judith S. Weis and Carol A. Butler shed ample light on the human impact, including chapters on physical and biological alterations, pollution, and remediation and recovery programs. In addition to a national and global perspective, the authors place special emphasis on coastal wetlands in the Atlantic and Gulf regions, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, calling attention to their historical and economic legacies. Written in clear, easy-to-read language, Salt Marshes proves that the battles for preservation and conservation must continue, because threats to salt marshes ebb and flow like the water that runs through them.
Author : Clare Carson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784080976
Sam Coyle's father lived in the shadows – an undercover agent among the spies and radicals of Cold War London. That world claimed his life, and Sam is haunted by his absence. He left nothing behind but his enemies; nothing to his daughter but his tradecraft and paranoia. Now, her boyfriend Luke is missing too – the one person she could trust, vanished into the fog on the Kentish coast. To find him, Sam must follow uncertain leads into a labyrinth of blind channels and shifting ground. She must navigate the treacherous expanse of the salt marsh... What people are saying about THE SALT MARSH: 'One of my favourite books, I loved it' 'A fast moving and gripping thriller you can't put down' 'I would urge you to read it if you like your crime multi-faceted with more of a literary leaning. Highly recommend' 'I can assure you it's haunting, and also very well written and evocative with a great sense of tension'
Author : Duncan M. FitzGerald,Zoe J. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107186286
A multidisciplinary review of salt marshes, describing how they function and respond to external pressures such as sea-level rise.
Author : Merryl Alber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981770055
Two young girls visit and learn all about the Georgia coastal salt marsh.
Author : Brian R. Silliman,Edwin D. Grosholz,Mark D. Bertness
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520258924
"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, Davis
Author : Doug Wechsler
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590785886
The salt marsh is not so friendly to humans, but it's the only place to be for many creatures and plants. Breathtaking photographs and fascinating facts reveal the secrets of the salt marsh and celebrate this squishy and surprising habitat.
Author : Kevin Kurtz
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780976882350
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.
Author : Charles Seabrook
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820343846
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.
Author : M.P. Weinstein,Daniel A. Kreeger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306475344
In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.
Author : John Teal,Mildred Teal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983-07
Category : Marsh ecology
ISBN : 0345310276
"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 prairie rustle.... " One of nature's greatest gifts is the string of salt marshes that edges the East Coast from Newfoundland to Florida -- a ribbon of green growth, part solid land, part scurrying water. Life and Death of the Salt Marsh shows how these marshes are developed, what kinds of life inhabit them, how enormously they have contributed to man, and how ruthlessly man is destroying them.
Author : J.R. Packham,A. J. Willis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0412579804
Summary: Discusses coastal sand dune, shingle beach, and salt marsh ecosystems, communities based upon relatively unconsolidated granular deposits which frequently rest upon solid rock or, much more rarely, on peat.
Author : Kevin Kurtz
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781607180982
Rhyming verses take children up a mountain to explore how animals and habitats change as they travel higher and higher above sea level. Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.
Author : Marcia Santore
Publisher : Marcia Santore
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692067035
A goblin is happily making salt-crystal "bling" for himself, until he spots the nymph's green glass beads and is overwhelmed by desire for them. He asks for the beads, he demands the beads, he whines and begs for the beads. But the nymph has her own purpose for the beads, using them to do her science-magic ... Marcia Santore's colorful pictures retell the story of Overheard on a Saltmarsh, introducing Harold Monro's beloved poem to a new generation of children, while raising an important question: Just because some guy asks you for something, does that mean you have to give it him? Children (and adults!) will identify with the envy and desire of the tantruming goblin on the one hand, and with the serious-minded work of the gentle but firm nymph. The book also provides an opportunity to talk with children about when sharing is important and when maintaining personal boundaries is important, as well as the difference between "want" and "need." And that sometimes the right answer is "No." Don't miss the salt crystal-making activity in the back!
Author : Christy Peterson
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502624765
A salt marsh is teeming with life, although a lot of it is hard to see. Readers spend a day in this ecological wonderland and witness the effects of the changing tides, the parade of creatures, and the rapidly altering shape of these and biologically crucial areas.