Saltwater Wetlands

More Background

Water is high in sodium, chloride, potassium, calcium and magnesium and have a pH that ranges from medium acid to moderately alkaline

Solutions?

• People have also tried to prevent pollution and water flow in the areas
• Many organizations have been made to protect saltwater marshes
• •Laws now exist that prevent the destruction of salt marshes

Human Influence on the Wetlands!

Symbiosis

• Over half of wetlands were destoryed to make room for homes and agriculture work.
• Salt Marshes are filling up with the disposal of human garbage and waste.
• Dicked, Ditched, and drained for conversion to agriculture land
• •At least 31 bird species would have become extinct in the past century without them protected areas

• Endangered Species

Mutualism: •mycorrhizal fungi and plants, produce a mutualism symbiosis

Commensalism: •commensalism between alpheid shrimp and other marine invertebrates and fish are common in waters.

Parasitism: •The dodder has twining orange stems and creamy white flowers. It is parasitic and unable to photosynthesize, and lives off nutrients taken from its green pickleweed host

Competition: Crabs and Raccoons

Websites

• •Belding's Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis beldingi
• •California Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus
• •Maritime Ringlet Butterfly (Coenonympha nipisiquit McDunnough

• •http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/index.cfm
• •http://www.nycgovparks.org/greening/natural-resources-group/bronx-river-wetlands/estuary-section/reach-1/saltwater-marshes
• •http://traveltips.usatoday.com/animals-salt-water-marshes-florida-63084.html
• •http://www.geography4kids.com/files/water_wetlands.html
• •http://wfrec.ufl.edu/Subsites/RangeScience/rangelands/saltmrsh.html
• •http://saltmarshlife.com/salt-marsh/animals.html
• •http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgeplot/234762954/
• Google Images
• http://www.grida.no/publications/planet-in-peril/page/1324.aspx

More Background:

•Saltwater marshes by the shore drain every day at low tide

Abiotic

Mussels

Salt Hay

Biotic

Common Plants

• Common Animals

Clams

Climate:

• •Air temperature may be below freezing in winter and over 90° F in the summer.

• •Salt Hay (Spartina patens)

• Common reed - Phragmites australis

Crocodile

Precipitation

• •Salt Grass (Distichilis spicata

Common Reed

• Crocodile
• Turtle
• Raccoon
• Manatee
• Barnacles
• Clams
• Mussels
• Crabs

Turtle

• Poison Ivy

• 38 centimeters
• 15 inches

Crabs

• •Marsh Elder

Salt Grass

Soil Profile

Raccoon

• The soil is very poorly drained, mucky or sandy clay loams

Climatograph

Barnacles

Manatee

Poison Ivy

Marsh Elder

Background

Nonrenewable

Resources:

• Renewable
• Wind Power
• Solar Power

Location

Saltwater Wetland is prone to saltwater flooding; a marshy grassland area regular flooded with saltwater.

Food Web

• Feldspar
• Magnesium
• bromine
• Sodium Cloride

Found on all continents of the world in middle and High latitudes

Mud Flat

Low Marsh

Three Zones:

• Salt Marshes are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world and contribute nearly 10 tons of organic matter per acre to the surrounding marine and terrestrial communities according to the Natural Resource Inventory

• Mud Flat

High Marsh

• Low Marsh

• High Marsh

Saltwater Marshes

By: Hailey Hovda and Alexia John