By Harry Thurston, Wayne Barrett
Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation
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S. by Publishers Group West We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Contents PREFACE 1 THE ATLANTIC REALM Where North Meets South 2 OCEANS AND MOUNTAINS The Geology and Paleontology of the Atlantic Coast 3 THE ATLANTIC HINTERLAND Forests of the Atlantic Coast 4 BETWEEN THE CAPES The Mid-Atlantic Bight 5 TIDES OF LIFE The Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy 6 RIVER INTO THE SEA The Gulf of St.
The most important factor affecting the Chesapeake environment has been the post–World War ii population boom, which witnessed a doubling of bay residents. Although parts of the precolonial ecosystem remain intact, it has been drastically altered by urbanization, agriculture, and the denuding of the original forest. The excess nutrients and sediments pouring into the bay have had an overwhelming impact on this once-clear-water aquatic habitat, clouding its future. The bounty of Atlantic cod first lured Europeans across the Atlantic and for five centuries sustained a commercial fishery and fishing culture.
What most distinguishes the rocky shores, besides the size of the substrate, is the clearly visible vertical zonation of organisms, an expression of the strong physical stresses on these exposed, wave-battered shorelines. Typical animals and plants have adapted to the environmental stresses at each level of the intertidal zone: lichens in the spray or splash zone above extreme high water; blue green algae and rough periwinkles in the black zone, which is covered only by the highest tides. Below this high-water mark, in descending order, are the barnacle zone, a blazing white due to the limestone shells of the dominant barnacles; the brown algae zone, where knotted wrack and bladder wrack clothe the rocks with luxuriant growth; and finally, in the low intertidal zone, the Irish moss zone, the realm of the red algae.