Tide pool

called tides. Each day there are two high tides, when the water moves higher onto the beach, and two low tides, when the water moves further away from the beach back out toward the main body of water. A tidepool is a pool of water left behind by the ocean tides. Oysters, seabirds, blue crabs, and cordgrass can all live in a tidepool. Let’s explore the tidepool habitat. When high tides come up onto the beach, the water brings animals and plants with it. Tide pools are formed when low tide takes the

between each zone there is a “fringe” zone where species from each zone can persist in small numbers before reaching their range limit (the “supralittoral fringe” and the “infralittoral fringe”) (Stephenson & Stephenson, 1949). Boulders, crevices, and tide pools all create microhabitats within the zones (Graham & Wilcox, 2000; Stephenson & Stephenson, 1949; Lartigue, 2003; Bolton & Anderson, 1990; Underwood, 2000). The presence of these features can alter the effects of abiotic factors such as light availability

This proposal presents a research project for a 2-month stay at the University of Rostock (Germany) as part of my doctoral studies. As a PhD student in Ecology at the University of Malaga, where I have developed my scientific background for the last three years, there are several reasons why I think I am an eligible candidate for this research grant. The topics and techniques that would be covered in the proposed research stay perfectly suit to my background, experience and research interests. As

Sea stars along much of the North American Pacific coast are dying in great numbers from a mysterious wasting syndrome. Similar die-offs have occurred before in the 1970s, 80s, and the 90s, but never before at this magnitude and over such a wide geographic area. Pisaster ochraceus and many other species of sea stars have been affected by the current sea star wasting syndrome event. The following paper by Hewson et al. “Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality” provides

both areas, but others were only found in either the mid pool or upper pool areas. The invertebrate species common to both mid and upper pool areas were dog whelk, green crab, smooth periwinkle, blue mussels, rough periwinkle, isopod, common periwinkle and acorn barnacle. Cladophora rupestris, Corallina officinalis, Pilayella, Chaetomorpha melagonium were the macroalgae species that both the upper and mid pool areas contained. The mid pool area has more biodiversity in regards to both invertebrate

high water neap tide, low water neap tide, high water spring tide, low water spring tide, mid tide level and the splash zone and sub littoral zone. All of these tidal zones can be determined by which indicator organisms/animals are living there. For an example the splash zone is the highest of all zones and the organisms that are generally living there are noddiwinkles. If you spot a lot of honeycomb barnacles and blue-grey periwinkle’s then you are most likely in the high water tide zone and water

there are in the Intertidal zone? Or what kinds of adaptations they use? Almost all plants that are algae live in this incredible zone. Some other names for this amazing zone are the High Tide Zone, Mid Tide Zone, and Low Tide Zone. The Intertidal Zone is also called the shallow ocean zone, and has a lot of tide pools. This zone stretches from the surface to 660 feet, and you can find jellyfish, crabs, fish, and sea turtles. Adaptations are a species ability to change to its surrounding to survive. Even

There are three major intertidal zones including Upper Mid-littoral Zone, Lower Mid-littoral Zone, and the Lower Littoral Zone. These zones allow for different organisms to survive in their preferred tide levels. For example, the upper zone includes organisms that survive in a niche with high tide; where as the lower zone contains organisms with niches in low tidal zones. Within the ecology of intertidal ecosystems lies a food web varying from humans and to microscopic plants such as phytoplankton

time, check my bag, making sure I have everything I need and head out the door. I open the car door and see my other friends, Brian, Rachel, and Moses, as they greet me with a hello. Heading over to Abalone Cove, a popular cliff-jumping place and tide-pools area, I roll down the window to smell the fresh, So Cal weather and to feel the wind

crevice between two barnacle blanketed rocks, wet with morning dew but the children are already enraptured with a different creature. Peacefully undulating in a tide pool, the sea anemone’s bright colors and patterns are striking against the muted background of rocks, seaweed, and fog. The two children couch down on either side of the pool and giggle, giddy with the excitement of discovery. The girl reaches a finger out, undeterred by the