Define
The area of shoreline between the highest high and the lowest low.
What is intertidal zone?
Benthic animals that move about the surface of the sea bottom or are firmly attached to it.
What is epifauna?
The limiting resource in the upper intertidal.
What is moisture/water?
The two types of substrates we looked at.
What is rocky and muddy/sandy?
What is substrate?
A member of the epifauna that lives attached to a substrate
What is sessile?
The upper intertidal is sometimes referred to as this.
What is the splash zone?
The combination of clay and silt sediment.
What is mud?
when an organism has lost its body moisture.
What is desiccated?
Organisms that live under the sediment of an ecosystem.
What is infauna?
Most dominant species in middle intertidal.
What is mussels?
The largest sediment type. (of the muddy or sand)
What is sand sediment?
Noticeable horizontal bands of organisms living within a certain range in the intertidal zone
What is vertical zonation?
a Gradually increasing occupation of new organisms into a specific area.
What is ecological succession?
The zone with the most diverse organisms.
What is the lower intertidal?
Why is space on a rocky substrate important?
What is most things attach to the substrate/living space?
What is disturbance ecology?
When a dominant species move into an area and become established for an extended period.
What is a climax community?
What is crabs, birds, rodents?
The substrate that has the most detritus.
What is the muddy substrate?