Life and Death of the Salt Marsh
- ISBN-10
- 0345270932
- ISBN-13
- 9780345270931
- Category
- Science / Life Sciences / Ecology
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Authors
- Mildred Teal, John Teal
Description
"At low tide, the wind blowing across Spartina grass sounds like wind of the prairie. When the tide is in, the gentle music of moving water is added to the prairie rustle.... " One of nature's greatest gifts is the string of salt marshes that edges the East Coast from Newfoundland to Florida -- a ribbon of green growth, part solid land, part scurrying water. Life and Death of the Salt Marsh shows how these marshes are developed, what kinds of life inhabit them, how enormously they have contributed to man, and how ruthlessly man is destroying them.
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