estuarine environment

[′es·chə·wə‚rēn en′vī·rən·mənt]

(oceanography)

The physical conditions and influences of an estuary.

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The only similarity I can strike is between starlings and those remarkable flocks of waders, such as knot, that collect in the estuarine environment and perform similar feats of collective aerobatics.

Feeding time brings young to the bird table

(2.) DR Pratt et al., "Detecting Subtle Shifts in Ecosystem Functioning in a Dynamic Estuarine Environment," PLoS ONE, 10 (2015), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133914.

Tipping Points in Coastal Ecosystems

Among estuarine environment fish, the Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1972) species is of great economic importance to the city of Sao Luis, Maranhao.

Parasitism in gills of Centropomus undecimalis (Pisces, Centropomidae) from a protected area in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Use of an estuarine environment (Barra do Sai lagoon, Brazil) as nursery by fish.

Habitat use by Atherinella brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) in intertidal zones of a subtropical estuary, Brazil/Uso do habitat por Atherinella brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) nas regioes intertidais de um estuario subtropical, Brasil

The ready source of food within the estuarine environment here has supported humans, too a fishing industry still exists in Leigh-on-Sea and the land's potential attracted enterprising agronomists.

Flat land: this month, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s Discovering Britain walk takes Olivia Edward through rural Essex to the Thames estuary, where she's delighted by a fascinating 'land of horizontals'

(14C dating) (Ruiz et al., 1998) in an estuarine environment of a shallow channel (depth < 10 m) (Borrego et al., 1999).

Control factors on the composition of superficial sediments in estuaries of the coast of Huelva (SW Spain): a statistical approach/ Factores de control sobre la composicion de sedimentos superficiales de los estuarios de la costa de Huelva (SO de Espana): un acercamiento estadistico

During this period it is likely that the fluvial freshwater system of the drained lakebed slowly changed to a spatially complex estuarine environment with the interface between fresh and marine water migrating westward and northward toward the sources of fresh water, creating a highly dynamic system (Lewis and Stone, 1991).

Estuarine-scale genetic variation in the polychaete Hobsonia florida (Ampharetidae; Annelida) in Long Island Sound and relationships to Pleistocene glaciations

Grand Bay NERR was established in 1999 to preserve and protect one of the largest remaining expanses of estuarine environment along the Mississippi coast.

Short-term spatial variations in the beds of Ruppia maritima (ruppiaceae) and Halodule wrightii (cymodoceaceae) at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi, USA

* An aquatic ecological preserve representative of the bay's estuarine environment, centered on open bay systems with parts of the adjacent shoreline.

NPS studying Chesapeake Bay: Park Service, citizens discussing whether to include bay in system. (Park Study)

But I also remembered, vaguely, a lush, verdant estuarine environment, dotted with mangrove islands and teeming with wildlife.