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North Carolina salt marshes
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 1, North Carolina salt marshes
(Courtesy: John Bruno)
A New England salt marsh at high tide
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 2, A New England salt marsh
(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Salt marsh zonation
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 3, New England salt marsh zonation
(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Spartina alterniflora Juncus gerardi
Iva frutescens
Spartina patens
A North Carolina salt marsh
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 4, A North Carolina salt marsh
(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Salt marsh zonation
Session 4: Estuuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 5, Zonation of a typical North Carolina salt marsh
(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Spartina alterniflora Juncus roemerianus
Iva frutescens
Salt marsh bare patch generation by physical disturbance
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 6, bare patch generation
Two physical disturbances that can create bare patches in salt marshes. (Courtesy: Mark Bertness)
Ice rafting disturbance Wrack disturbance
Bare patch recolonization
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 7, bare patch recolonization
A salt marsh bare patch being recolonized by spike grass, an early colonist but competitively inferior species. (Courtesy: Mark Bertness)
Salt marsh dredging
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 8, salt marsh dredging
(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Fringing salt marshes
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 9, fringing salt marshes
A fringing New England salt marsh(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Seagrass beds
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4.10, seagrass beds
A tropical seagrass bed(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Estuarine habitats
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4.11, estuarine habitats
Salt marsh, oyster reef, and mud flat habitats(Courtesy: John Bruno)
Oyster reef
Session 4: Estuarine EcosystemsCoastal Hazards Management CourseSlide 4. 12, oyster reef
Close up photograph of an oyster reef(Courtesy: John Bruno)