Saltmarshes

Word SALTMARSHES
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Definitions and meanings of "Saltmarshes"

What do we mean by saltmarshes?

A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.

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The word "saltmarshes" in example sentences

Warren added: This world would also rapidly be losing its ecosystem services, owing to large losses in biodiversity, forests, coastal wetlands, mangroves and saltmarshes and an acidified and potentially dysfunctional marine ecosystem. ❋ Damian Carrington (2010)

This world would also rapidly be losing its ecosystem services, owing to large losses in biodiversity, forests, coastal wetlands, mangroves and saltmarshes, and terrestrial carbon stores, supported by an acidified and potentially dysfunctional marine ecosystem. ❋ Patrick McCully (2010)

How about the Army Corps of Engineers, with their patented program of working with developers to get people to put expensive houses in floodplains and near hurricane threatened shores, plowing over saltmarshes and the like? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The critically endangered orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) overwinters among the coastal dune vegetation and saltmarshes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The rail of the saltmarshes, the clapper, which is more commonly heard than seen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Your report clearly indicates that inundation should have happened and yet you provide no physical evidence that it has taken place, like the growth of saltmarshes or increased coastal erosion or something. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I cannot yet move from hence as no caravan has yet arrived from the west; it is indeed expected, but so it has been for a length of time, and that very expectation prevents me from undertaking any other journey, and chains me to this town, the air of which presses more heavily upon my lungs than did the pestilential exhalations of the saltmarshes of Medina. ❋ Unknown (2004)

* The valleys are often quiet havens for wildlife, supporting reedbeds, wet willow carr, marshes, ancient woodlands, saltmarshes and mudflats. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The reserve includes sand flats, sand dunes, saltmarshes and woodland and offers beautiful views of the coast. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I've been doing the two Blakeney loops on the Norfolk saltmarshes since I was a child and for sheer space there is nowhere else to go. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"If we had a spill and that stuff got up in our saltmarshes, it would create devastation on the coast of Georgia." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sparrows nest amongst the saltmarshes, and are vulnerable to frequent high tides, which can cause a high level of nest loss. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The saltmarshes and mudflats of the Severn host an array of natural life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eel Marsh House stands tall, gaunt and isolated, surveying the endless flat saltmarshes beyond the Nine Lives Causeway, somewhere on England's bleak East Coast. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The result is a spectacularly varied coast, which ranges from the basalt cliffs of Cornwall to the tidal saltmarshes of Essex. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It will significantly increase the ability to provide the necessary biological functions that saltmarshes are so good at providing, "he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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