Searching for information online about shoreline wrack has lead me to many strong sites dealing with its importance. Birds, fish, and crabs all depend on the wrack for various reasons.
Seaweed decomposes into the soil which helps the lizards living in the wrack and the plants that use the soil to grow. "In the study, the growth rate of land-based plants near seaweed-subsidized plots was 70 percent higher than in non-seaweed-subsidized plots." (Dybas, 2012) Seagrass or sargassum grows in the sargassum sea. The seaweed is actually an algae.
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To understand the importance of wrack on the beach I needed to perform further research. The wrack on the beach is important to the wildlife and keeping the ecosystem the way we know it. While in future studies I can find ways to keep wrack safe from plastic entirely, we need to assess the actual damage this plastic infiltration is causing.
Lily--great title! Be careful when copying/pasting into the Blog--it changes your font. In fact, these posts should really be in your own words. My question to you is, what does this post have to do with your topic?--it wasn't at all clear or included.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, please 'caption your pics' properly. One caption even indicates that you should caption it. Also, make your captions original rather than a copy/paste...(who is David Spiller?).
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