BIOL 2903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Raised Beach, Sphagnum, Wood Frog
8 Oct 2018
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Long-tailed duck appearance changes from summer to winter in both the male and female which is odd for ducks. Also strictly nest along the coast of hudson bay. Wood frog, boreal chorus frog: rivers flow into hudson bay (ex. No, some years ice is late to form and leaves early and they depend on the ice pack to feed. Harass terns until they drop their: the coastal flats and dunes are habitat for plants, some plants are salt-tolerant = halophytic fish then pick them up, ex. For when storms come in splashing water up: salt-tolerant plants have fleshy (thick) leaves. Important for protection from abrasive particles blown by the wind and hold water (once filled up to maintain their processes). Also have salts glands for removing salt: seaside lungwort (a. k. a. Oysterleaf or bluebells: the (cid:862)la(cid:449)(cid:374)(cid:863) is goosegrass, another halophytic plant, source of food for geese, further inland there are raised beach ridges far from water.
