Food Web in the Surf Zone of an Exposed Sandy Beach along the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States

摘要: To the casual observer it appears that exposed sandy beach of temperate latitudes is, except for conspicuous migrating shore birds, a rather desolate and abiotic region sea. We know, however, this air-sandwater interface is also inhabited by less shore-zone fishes invertebrates. Each group relatively well-known, has low diversity evolved variety unique adaptations required such an existence. Their interactions as parts distinct community, have been intensively studied in only few world (e.g. South Africa, McLachlan et al. 1981). The factor which tends to simplify progress toward understanding interactions, but physical harshness impede collection biological information dealing with fauna.