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Salt marsh during low tide, mean low tide, high tide and very high tide (spring tide). A coastal salt marsh in Perry, Florida, USA.. A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.
Similar relict populations of the prairie vole (M. ochrogaster) on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, which were reportedly abundant in the early 20th century, have since been extirpated, and the Florida salt marsh vole could potentially follow the same fate. Relatively few individuals have been sighted since 1979, with a 1992 survey with ...
Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park is a 30,784-acre (124.58 km 2) salt marsh that stretches from Cedar Key to Yankee Town, and is only accessible by boat.It includes the part of Gulf Hammock wetlands area that is closest to the Gulf.
The western meadow vole, Florida salt marsh vole, and beach vole were formerly considered regional variants or subspecies of M. pennsylvanicus, but have all since been designated as distinct species. The eastern meadow vole is active year-round, usually at night.
Florida mangrove plant communities covered an estimated 430,000 to 540,000 acres ... including mangroves and salt marshes, during the 20th century.
The high marsh is usually quite level because it has formed from compacted, slowly decomposing layers of old salt marsh hay and trapped sediment, laid down year after year as sea level rises ...
The Florida bonneted bat, Florida mouse and Florida salt marsh vole are the only mammal species endemic to Florida. The mouse depends on the gopher tortoise (also endangered) for its survival, because it makes its burrows from tortoise burrows, or in the absence of those, oldfield mouse burrows.
Gulf sturgeon, Florida salt marsh vole, eastern indigo snake, gopher tortoise, and wood stork are examples of threatened or endangered species that find suitable habitat within the refuge. Numerous birds, including the striking swallow-tailed kite , bald eagle , osprey , prothonotary warbler , and dozens of species of shorebirds use the refuge ...