Salt marshes

Study area is geographically located between 32° 32´ 38 ' ' - 33° 21´ 09 ' ' E and 30° 51´ 38 ' ' - 31° 14´ 39 ' ' N, in the northwestern of Egypt. The northern Sinai coast is located within the rainy belt of Egypt; while the aridity increases generally to the south (El-Ghazawi, 1989). Rainfall is scarce and varies from place to place and increases in the northeastern direction, ranging from about 30 mm/year in the southwest at Ismailia to about 300 mm/year in the northeast at Rafah. The annual rainfall

Rules by Cynthia Lord Dear Diary, Today I’ll tell you how my life is based upon rules. All I want to do is feel normal. But I can’t. This is kind of hard when you have a brother with autism [David] and because of his disability the family revolves around him. Over the years I have been trying to help David by making rules. With these rules I won’t have to worry about David’s embarrassing behaviors and David could also grow out of these habits. Over the summer I befriended a disabled boy named

from predators (Golden Gate Audubon Society, 2015). In return for providing a workforce, the public benefits from the indirect values that these natural areas provide, such as the aesthetic and intrinsic value of nature and wildlife. For the South Bay Salt Ponds that the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory works on, volunteers that monitor populations have access to natural areas that may be closed to the public. The rest of the public benefits from the areas of the habitat that are open to the public

*Eastern Chipmunk:The Eastern Chipmunk is a chipmunk found in eastern North America. It is the only living member of the chipmunk subgenus Tamias. It lives in deciduous wooded areas and urban parks throughout the eastern United States & Southern Canada. It prefers locations with rocky areas, brush or log piles, and shrubs to provide cover.It can climb trees well, constructs underground nests with extensive tunnel systems. Carries soil to a different location in its cheek pouches. Hides it’s barrow

Wetlands are a critical component of our environment and are thought off as being among the most productive ecosystems in the world. Wetlands are defined as geographical areas where water covers or overly saturates the soil during the majority of growing seasons (CZM). They vary based on their appearances and locations which are greatly influenced by regional and soil divergence such as topography, climate, water chemistry, vegetation as well as human degradation (CZM). Wetlands are identified

miracle for the people of Moses, and the soldiers of King Ramses did not unfortunately live to tell their tale. Ultimately, there will always be an endless debate whether the actual sea was indeed a sea or if it was just a lake filled with shallow marshes and reeds, the only possible answer is through accurate geographical locations but to this day the accuracy has never been credible since it never was mentioned in the

Organisms in our society are always interacting with one another on a daily basis. These interactions impact the fate of the organisms lives, and that of the rest of the ecosystem. These interactions can either be direct and indirect. A direct organism affects an organism without outside interferences, while an indirect organism interaction is when an organism interacts an organism by its effects on a third organism. The three different direct interactions are competition in which both organisms

Crocodiles maintain salt concentrations in their body fluid at the typical level of other vertebrates, which is about one-third that of seawater (52). ¡§The osmoregulatory problems posed by life in fresh or saline waters are related to the amounts of water and salts exchanged across various body surfaces. Loss of salts and water occurs in feces and urine, through respiration, excretion from salt glands in the tongue, and through the skin. The ability of the American crocodile to tolerate salt water is related

Due to climate change, millions of people all over the world are suffering from issues with their health. In the United States, waves of relentless heat, mostly in the southern states, have a drastic effect upon more and more people each year. Many people believe that this is because each generation gets weaker than the one before; for example, about a year or so ago, there was a discussion about whether or not they should put air conditioning on school buses because children were passing out from

problem with pollution and the destruction of natural habitats (Water Resource Management and Environmental Assessment & Restoration, 2014). Today, the Tampa Bay has lost over 44% of its coastal wetlands acreage, including mangrove forests and salt marshes (Department of Environmental Protection, 2012). There is still decline as waterfront development and pollution threaten the abundance of this essential tree. If the mangroves disappear from the Tampa Bay estuary, the area will suffer adverse ecological