Puget
Sound is characterized by distinct gradients of physical features
(e.g. salinity, temperature, wave action) from its southern
to northern extent. Paralleling these physical gradients
are striking patterns
of diversity
and species composition in organisms living on the shorelines.
With funding
from Sea
Grant scientists
from the University of Washington and the Department of
Natural Resources are investigating the ecological and
physical processes
that generate these intertidal biodiversity patterns
and how modifications of these processes could lead to
changes in our shorelines.
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