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| Form in the zone between terrestrial and marine environments; classified based on underlying geology and substrate (rocky shore, sandy beaches, coastal dunes, etc). |
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| Form in the zone between freshwater and land; dominated by plants that occur where the soil remains saturated for most of the year (marshes, swamps, bogs, etc). |
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| Organisms associated with the seabed |
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| Animals living on the surface of the substratum. |
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| Animals living within the sediments (below the sediment-water interface). |
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| Organisms whose shortest dimension is greater than or equal to 0.5 mm. |
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| Organisms smaller than 0.5 mm but greater than or equal to 0.1 mm. |
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| Organisms smaller than 0.1 mm. |
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| Ingest sediment and associated organic matter and microbial organisms. |
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| Capture particles from the water column that include bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplankton. |
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| Passive Suspension Feeders |
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| Collect particles deposited onto a protruding feeding organ. |
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| Active Suspension Feeders |
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| Draw particles towards them with a feeding current. |
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| Communities of emergent herbs, grasses or low shrubs rooted in soils alternatively inundated and drained by tidal action. |
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| An indirect chain where the effects of a top predator are evident at multiple lower trophic levels. |
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| Intertidal and emergent plant communities dominated by mangroves, which are rooted in marine sediments. |
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| Develop in shallow basins, from upland depressions to filled-in lakes and ponds; water flow is vertical. |
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| Develop along shallow and periodically flooded banks of rivers; water flow is unidirectional. |
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| Occur along the coasts of large lakes; water flow is in two directions. |
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| Wetlands dominated by emergent herbaceous vegetation. |
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| Wetlands occasionally or seasonally flooded by river waters. |
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| Wetlands characterized by an accumulation of organic matter. |
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| Depend on groundwater for water and nutrients. |
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| Depend on precipitation for water and nutrients. |
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| The explicit incorporation of science into ecosystem conservation and restoration strategies; the goal of active adaptive management determine best management practices by experimentally testing alternative approaches. |
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| In wetlands, the duration, frequency, depth and season of flooding. |
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