Sentence examples for sand communities from inspiring English sources

In turn, the biological data also showed an inshore-offshore pattern, identifying two main biological assemblages: fine/very fine sand and coarse/very coarse sand communities.

Because fly ash deposits share some substrate physical attributes with drift sands, we hypothesised that they could be colonised by drift sand communities.

In the Gulf of Mexico, seep meiofauna studies were conducted for the shallow brine seep sand communities at East Flower Garden (Powell et al., 1983 , 1986 Jensen, 1986) and the hydrocarbon seep bacterial mat communities at Alaminos Canyon (2200 m), Green Canyon (about 700 m), and Atwater Valley (about 2000 m) (Robinson et al., 2004).

The Trou Sable (Hole in the Sand) community clinic, on an extension of Poupelard had become a triage center two weeks after the earthquake when teams of foreign doctors arrived.

Steller et al. (2003) reported that the total number of organisms supported by the coralline red algal rhodoliths significantly increased with both complexity (branching density) and space available (thallus volume) when compared with adjacent sand community.

Despite similarities in appearance and species occurrences, the eolian sand community of the Coachella Valley is a complex matrix of subdivisions, each with different relative species abundances, and different local population responses to changing resources.

Our study reveals that the seawall construction led to a major spatial reorganisation of the macrobenthic communities with a drastic reduction of the muddy-sand community.

Nevertheless, in some cases, two or four zones were found: (1) two zones when the drying zone located on the upper shore was replaced by littoral rock or engineering constructions and (2) four zones on beaches and estuaries where a muddy-sand community occurred from the drift line to the mid shore.

Sand shinnery communities are some of the least understood and most poorly described communities in the southwestern United States [ 30].

For example, we found the greatest site-level topographic heterogeneity among sand barrens communities.

For example, Rhinanthus minor, a hemiparasitic plant, decreased diversity of sand dune communities through preferentially parasitizing a competitively inferior species (Gibson and Watkinson 1989; Press and Phoenix 2005).