Invertebrates A CASE STUDY OF CHINA CAMP STATE PARK, MARIN COUNTY

• Published in: Ecology, Conservation, and Restoration of Tidal Marshes p. 147
• Main Authors: Lindsey, Brie, Cohen, Andrew N, Robinson, April, Grenier, Letitia
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 09.09.2012
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Animal traps; Animals; Applied sciences; Aquatic ecology; Biological sciences; Biological taxonomies; Biology; Biomass; China Camp State Park; Civil engineering; Earth sciences; Ecology; Ecology and Conservation; Engineering; exotic species; food web; Geography; Hunting gear; Hydraulic structures; intertidal; Invertebrates; Land; Levees; macroinvertebrates; Marine and Estuarine Biology; Marine ecology; Marshes; Mollusks; Physical sciences; Pit traps; Rangelands; salt marsh; Salt marshes; San Francisco Bay; Snails; Taxa; Technology; tidal gradient; tidal marsh; Wetland ecology; Wetlands; Zoology
• ISBN: 0520274296; 9780520274297
• DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520274297.003.0010

Intertidal habitats present a harsh physical environment for resident invertebrates. Twice-daily tides subject terrestrial invertebrates to the risk of drowning and aquatic invertebrates to the risk of desiccation. Inundation periods and sediment properties vary across the intertidal gradient, and environmental conditions change rapidly with inundation and exposure. Physical and biological conditions change over small spatial scales, as slight changes in elevation translate to large changes in hydrology, geomorphology, and vegetation (Collins et al. 1986; Pennings and Callaway 1992). The distribution of rocky intertidal invertebrates varies over both large and small spatial scales as a result of differences in dispersal, recruitment,