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Estuary BiomeSara Watts and Emily Luna
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What’s an estuary?Saltwater meets freshwaterRiver runs into oceanLagoonsBaysTidal Marshes
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AnimalsShrimpClamsPelicansDucks
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PlantsPhytoplanktonAlgaeMosses BushesNo trees
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Biotic FactorsCompetitionPredationParasitismCommensalismMutualismAmensalism
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Abiotic FactorsFishing netsToxic wastePollutionAir and water temperatureWater depthSalinityDissolved oxygenTurbiditypHNutrients
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Adaptations coping with the changes in salinityStenohalinesome can’t survive in the estuaryOnly live in fresh or salt water
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PredatorsCaspian TernsPacific MackerelBlue CrabSealShrimpHeron
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PreyMolluscsCrabWormsSalmonPlanktonStonefly Larva
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Food Web
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Human ImpactConstruction of buildingsBuilding of roads, dams, and highwaysAgriculturePollutionFishingMarinasOil spills
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Conservation effortsJOIN US for our 5th National Conference
on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration on Galveston Island, Texas, November 13-17, 2010.
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Tourist Destination
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Works Cited http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep6a.htm http://w3.lasallehs.org/courses/science/biology/html/what_is_an_estuar
y_.html http://estuary.uconn.edu/EWP16.html http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04162010-101313/unrestricted/Ar
onhime_diss.pdf http://www.bluefish.org/predator.htm http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/products/sci_olympiad/upload_1_
15_05/pdf/water_quality_estuarine_ecology.pdf http://www.estuaries.gov/estuaries101/About/Default.aspx?ID=241 http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/publications/techmemos/tm29/papers/emm
ett.htm http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_estuaries/est07_adapta
tions.html