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Tree roots are underminded by wave action and eventually succumb while the shoreline is eroded.
Eroded shoreline with tree snags
Stone rip-rap installed by the property owners in an attempt to prevent shoreline erosion. Hardened edges along the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers reduces natural shoreline habitat that fish and other marine animals depend on for food and shelter.
Hardened shoreline prevents erosion
Illustration for total nitrogen
Total nitrogen (TN)
Illustration of cultural Odisha graphics associated with the east coast of India.
Cultural Odisha graphics
Chesapeake Watershed Forester and landowner agree on best management practice strategies, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Forester and landowner agree on healthly forest…
Chesapeake Watershed Forester and landowner consult in the forest, in Maryland.
Forester and landowner consult during a survey of…
Chesapeake Watershed Forester and landowner amid a healthy mixed forest, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Forester and landowner survey the forest
Elevated utility to prevent flood damage.
Elevated utility
Raising a house to mitigate the effects of flooding.
Raising a house for flooding
Illustration of an oak seedling.
Quercus spp. (Oak) seedling
Chrysaora quinquecirrha (known as the Atlantic sea nettle or East Coast sea nettle)
Chrysaora quinquecirrha (known as the Atlantic…
Illustration of a volcanic island with reef, waterfall and atoll
Reef 3D: volcanic island with waterfall and atoll
Cross-section of a volcanic island watershed, showing crater lakes, waterfalls, modified and natural shoreline, fringing reef, volcanic island, and lava flows.
Watershed 3D: volcanic island with crater lakes…
Conceptual diagram illustrating the life cycle of the black salt marsh mosquito.
Black salt marsh mosquito life cycle
Conceptual diagram illustrating the goliath grouper life cycle and movement of various life stages throughout the nearshore and reef environments.
Goliath grouper life cycle
Conceptual diagram illustrating potential impacts of sea-level rise on mangrove dominated shorelines.
Potential inundation of mangroves by sea-level…
Conceptual diagram illustrating the inverse relationship between the size of plants and their growth rates and nutrient requirements.
Relationship between plant size, nutrient…
Conceptual diagram illustrating south Florida, located along the southern margin of the temperate region of North America and the northern margin of the tropics.
South Florida climate zone
Conceptual diagram illustrating different monitoring activities implemented on Assateague Island to track changing habitats. Monitoring activities - which are habitat specific - include water quality, seagrass area, salt marsh nekton survey, surface elevation table, plover nests and fledgling success, upland elevation change, shoreline rate of change, and beach topography.
Monitoring Activities to Track Changing Habitats…
Illustration of a generic temperate shrub
Generic shrub: temperate
Anemones are voracious eaters. Stinging cells (nematocytes) on their tentacles parlyze small prey. Photographed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Anemone
Moon jellyfish, named for their translucent, moonlike circular bell. Moon jellies have a short, fine fringe (cilia) that sweeps food toward the mucous layer on the edge of the bell. Prey is stored in pouches until the oral arms pick it up and begin to digest it. Photographed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Moon jellyfish (Aurelia labiata)
Sea nettles hunt by trailing tentacles and mouth-arms covered in stinging cells which paralyze and capture prey, moving them to the mouth where they can be digested. Photographed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens)
Purple sea urchin can grow up to 3 inches (7 cm) across and are found in the Pacific from Vancouver Island to Isla Cedra, Baja California and are prey to sea otters (among others). Photographed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Purple Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)
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