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how beaches affect other ecosystem?

Beaches ecosystem

  • the first way how beaches affetc ecosystem is reducing sedimentation caused by coastal erosion
  • The interaction between water motion and the meiofauna pro- vides the second way that beaches affect other marine ecosystems.

what we can do for improving our beaches?

For improving our beach we should not build more on the beach, reduce pollution, protect the lives of the animals that live there and do not deposit more waste

seashell beaches

At places like Shell Beach in Australia or Saint Barthelemy, Jeffreys Bay in South Africa, and Sanibel Island in Florida, the coastline is pure shells.

white sandy beaches

what is a beach ecosystem?

Fiji, Maldives,

Australia, Caribbean

long billed curlew

  • large shorebird
  • Extremely long, down-curved bill.
  • Buffy brown in color.
  • Plain crown.
  • The usual food consists of crabs and various other small invertebrates.

The ocean temperature rarely exceeds 55 degrees in the summer and there is approximately one half cup of salt per gallon of ocean water.

A beach ecosystem is relationship between the living and non living parts of the envirorment.

  • the non living envirorments are sand, wind and water
  • the living parts are plants (trees, shrubs, grasses) and animals (vertebrates and invertebrates)

sea gulls

  • gull are birds in the family "Laridae"
  • They are in general medium to large birds, typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet.

wind and water

Wind and salt water act together in a beach ecosystem.

Wind blows over the ocean’s surface, and whips up salty spray

which it carries over land.

mussels

plants

animals

A walk to the beach provides a great opportunity to see different vegetation types. Grasses are some of the first plant types to grow on a beach. Grasses are followed by low-lying plants like shrubs, and after shrubs establish themselves, tree species are more likely to grow.

sand

A beach ecosystem contains both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.

The vertebrates are animals with a backbone like fish and birds. The animals lacking a backbone,

the invertebrates, include animals like horseshoe crabs, ghost crabs, mussels, and clams.

Sand is a non-living part of the beach ecosystem that affects every organism living there.

It is the home for turtles and horseshoe crabs. The texture, particle size, temperature, and

even moisture content of the sand affects the organisms that live above as well as below it.

  • Mussels are found in large quantities along the coastline.
  • Mussels attach themselves to stones or shells with the help of strong threads, known as the mussel's 'beard'

bean clams, donax gouldi

  • this species is found on the pacific coast.
  • The bean clam may reach one inch in length, and is of varying coloration
  • The shells are relatively thick, and wedge-shaped

sand crabs

the flow energy through the different trophic level

  • No bigger than a thumb, a sand crab spends most of its time buried in shifting sand.
  • he has a heavily armored, curved body and pointy legs
  • a sand crab moves only backward.
  • Sand crabs feed in the swash zone, an area of breaking waves
  • Fishes, seabirds and shore birds are the main predators of sand crabs.
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