Supralittoral zone
The supralittoral zone, also known as the splash zone, spray zone or the supratidal zone, sometimes also referred to as the white zone, is the area above the spring high
estuaries, that is regularly splashed, but not submerged by ocean water. Seawater penetrates these elevated areas only during storms with high tides.[1][2]
Organisms here must cope also with exposure to air, fresh water from rain, cold, heat and
Isopoda commonly inhabit the lower supralittoral.[3]
See also
- Littoral zone
- Sublittoral zone
Notes
- ^ Thurman et al., p. 512.
- ^ "Marine biology; rocky shore; littoral; supralittoral; eulittoral; sublittoral; underwater cave". biophysics.sbg.ac.at. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ Yip and Madl
References
- Thurman H.V. and Trujillo A.P. 1993.Essentials of Oceanography.Upper Saddle River, NJ:Prentice Hall
- Yip, Maricela and Madl, Pierre (1999) Littoral University of Salzburg.
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