Estuary BiomeSara Watts and Emily Luna

What’s an estuary?Saltwater meets freshwaterRiver runs into oceanLagoonsBaysTidal Marshes

AnimalsShrimpClamsPelicansDucks

PlantsPhytoplanktonAlgaeMosses BushesNo trees

Biotic FactorsCompetitionPredationParasitismCommensalismMutualismAmensalism

Abiotic FactorsFishing netsToxic wastePollutionAir and water temperatureWater depthSalinityDissolved oxygenTurbiditypHNutrients

Adaptations coping with the changes in salinityStenohalinesome can’t survive in the estuaryOnly live in fresh or salt water

PredatorsCaspian TernsPacific MackerelBlue CrabSealShrimpHeron

PreyMolluscsCrabWormsSalmonPlanktonStonefly Larva

Food Web

Human ImpactConstruction of buildingsBuilding of roads, dams, and highwaysAgriculturePollutionFishingMarinasOil spills

Conservation effortsJOIN US for our 5th National Conference

on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration on Galveston Island, Texas, November 13-17, 2010.

Tourist Destination

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