Salt Marshes
BY: Noeli Cabrera
Introduction
Biotic + Abiotic Factors
- Clapper Rail - Rallus Longirostris
- Seaside Sparrow
- Smooth Cordgrass
- Black Needlerush
- Turtles
- Algae
Abiotic:
- Salt
- Water ( Brackish, Waterlogged, Salty )
- Fine-grain clay mixed soil
- Small tides
- Warm Temperature
Water: Florida's Lifeblood
- It is used to keep mosquitos away
- Partially restores natural functions of grid - ditched marshes
- Includes a variety of Hydrologic Manipulations
Endangered Species In Salt Marshes
One Endangered Species in Salt Marshes are the California Clapper Rail ( ALSO CALLED THE RALLUS lONGIROSTRIS OBSOLETUS ) , when not endangered it has been safely living along the west coast of North America, over time it has been majorly and dramatically reduced by hunting in the late 1800s. It has been legally official that it is illegal to hunt the animal in 1915, yet this one wonderful good thing was hard to keep up. Since They have been losing their habitat, it was finally declared an endangered species,because the animal lives in the wild it was likely going to be hunted down by it's predators. The feral cats and red foxes but the birds at greater risk of being extinct. People are trying hard to make a better habitat for these birds and yet the only way was to restore the marshes.
Scientific Classification Of A Clapper Rail
Classification of A Clapper Rail
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Rallus
Species: R. crepitans
Rallus crepitans Clapper rail, Scientific name
Clapper rail
Bird
The clapper rail is a member of the rail family, Rallidae. The taxonomy for this species is confusing and still being determined. The Ridgway's rail and the mangrove rail have been recently split. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Rallus crepitans
Rank: Species
Lower classifications: Light-footed Clapper Rail, Yuma Clapper Rail
Floridian Clapper Rail
Clapper Rail
California Clapper Rail
Food web
- Algae
- Cord grass
- Black Needlerush
Consumers:
- Turtles
- Crabs
- Otter
- Periwinkle
- fish *
- Clapper Rail - Rallus Longirostris
- Seaside Sparrow
- Black Needlerush
Decomposers:
- Bacteria
- Fungi
- Worms
Food Web below
Human Impacts On The Ecosystem
- It helps on mosquito control
- Filter water
- Buffer against storm erosion
- Provide essential nursery habitat for important fishery species
- Highly sensitive indicators of environmental change and impacts
- Helps provide a wasteland
- Provides food for animals ( occasional flooding )
Threats:
- Highly sensitive indicators of environmental change and impacts
- Roads and railroads severed their connection to the sea ( it reduces and or eliminates tidal flooding )
- Invasions of foreign species
- Pollution ( Nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, from fertilizers, septic systems, and farm waste are common pollutants that in high enough concentrations can change the structure and function of natural ecosystems )
Evidence of Research
- http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/66241.aspx Endangered Speces
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19960686 The Effects Of The Ecosystems Water
- http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/worldvegetation/marinewetlands/saltmarsh/index.html Coastal Salt Marsh
- http://webworldwonders.firn.edu/eco/coastal/salt.html Web Worlders
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QxPuaiPVh2V3p9o9ks2kemEOc0sUlqKkOdVnqcBI_wA/edit#slide=id.g98c9e3af8_0_134 Ecology Unit ( POWERPOINT )
- https://prezi.com/6vdszkyu95oe/human-impact-on-salt-marshes/ Prezi Human Imapcts
- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/virtual_disk_library/index.cgi/4274965/FID2292/HTMLS/ecosys/ecology/smdecomp.htm#top salt marsh decomposers
- https://www.smore.com/9h67e your ecosystem topic project smore starter by ms jensen
- http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520258921 human impacts on salt marshes
- http://des.nh.gov/organization/commissioner/pip/factsheets/cp/documents/cp-08.pdf threats to a salt marsh enviorment
- https://flandrumhill.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/why-salt-marshes-are-beneficial/ why salt marshes are benificial
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapper_rail wikipidea
- https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1CALEAA_enUS624US624&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#q=scientific%20classification%20of%20a%20clapper%20rail&es_th=1&safe=active&ssui=on google