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The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States and appears on its Great Seal.The bald eagle's range includes all of the contiguous United States and Alaska.. The fauna of the United States of America is all the animals living in the Continental United States and its surrounding seas and islands, the Hawaiian Archipelago, Alaska in the Arctic, and several island-territories in the ...
A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Worldwide there is about 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi) of coastline. Coastal habitats extend to the margins of the continental shelves, occupying about 7 percent of the ocean surface area.
Western North American coastal fauna (4 C, 203 P) Pages in category "Marine fauna of North America" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
Pages in category "Western North American coastal fauna" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 203 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Unwind with some of our favorite shots of wildlife in locations from the lower reaches of Florida to the upper expanses of Alaska.
The region is strongly influenced by the large mountain ranges stretching throughout most of the coast. Changes in elevation cause changes in plant/animal diversity, this can be exemplified through observing the alpine tundra's vegetation which consists of shrubs, herbs, mosses, and lichens; while lower elevations, the temperate coastal forest hold magnificently large trees such as western ...
Situated on the highest rocky headlands in all of America's Atlantic Coast, the park draws 3.5 million visitors a year to its 45 miles of carriage roads, 158 miles of hiking trails, and 27 miles ...
Reefs provide coastal protection through erosion control and shoreline stabilization, and modify the physical landscape by ecosystem engineering, thereby providing habitat for species by facilitative interactions with other habitats such as tidal flat benthic communities, seagrasses and marshes.