An Argument 
Coastal studies is miniature ecology course.
p. 1-5.
Rachel
Carson, The Edge of the Sea- Joseph Siry, Marshes of the Ocean Shore
- Sim Van der Ryn, Ecological Design
- Selections
(e-reserve, bold password is coast) or Olin Reserve:
Henry Williamson, Tales of Moorland and Estuary
Gary Kline, The Coastal Environment.
Pilkey & Dixon, The Corps and the Shore.
Pilkey, et. al. Living with the California Coast
essay samples
Ecology is the study of populations in places; the impact of surrounding conditions on that life, adaptations of life to those surroundings, and the interdependent relation that functionally sustains these living communities.
The endless sea in both space (70% of the planet) and time
Places along the shore, studies in adjustment:
- Mendocino "ecological staircase" -- tectonic coasts
- Cape Sable, the everglades shore -- receding coasts
- intertidal
- rocky shores
- sand beaches
- coral coast
- sea and land connections
- WEAL as a means to see vegetation and animals together
- watershed as a means to link rivers to the sea and shore to upland
- vegetation as more than a cover for the land
- plants and bacteria as builders and maintainers of land, air, and water.
- Succession as changes that climate and plants make on land and sea.
- Brackish water and two kinds of water quality
- the dual flow and mixing
- the null zone
- shorelines and tidelands
- barrier islands
- marshes
- oyster reefs
- mangroves
- Forbes -- subtidal and intertidal areas change with depth
- Merriam -- life zones are distinct areas
- Baird -- fisheries rely on plankton
- Clements & Cowles -- dune succession and diversity
- Shaler -- sustained yield and reclamation
- Leopold -- the top level predators and wildlife pyramids
- Lindeman -- the lake as a microcosm of solar peoductivity
- Carson -- the ecology of the sea, the sea's edge, and us
- Odum -- the productivity and diversity of marsh biota
- Conservation and Development
- Progressive Comprehensive Riverine Management and regional planning
- Coastal conflicts in the seashore zone
- the commons and private property rights
- preservation
- protection
- restoration
- the public trust doctrine
- Estuarine preservation ideal
- Ecological ethics
Everyone is a designer.
Complete guide to the Siry book
Terms:
- Zones and zonation as a means to distinguish parst of places.
- species:
- indicator -- sentinel -- keystone
- succession as the gardual change in species over time.
- productivity as a measure of integrity and functional performance.
- diversity of
- gene pools,
- species, &
- habitats.
- urban zoning: commercial -- residential -- industrial -- scenic.
- reclamation.
- riverine management, multiple- use, flood plains and reservoirs.
- fisheries protection and the public trust doctrine.
- Clean Water Act and dredge and fill permits.
- ecological design as a means to save what remains.
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The role of feedback in river mouths is critical to understanding their role, potential and place in civilizations.
Complete guide to the Siry book
Sources
J. Siry, Marshes of the Ocean Shore.
Date: 19 March 2008
Rivers and river mouths: the places called estuaries.
Make Nature visible.
The habitats within river mouths were misunderstood for two centuries.
Complete guide to the Marshes' book
History of the tidewater as a region
All solutions grow from place.
Complete guide to the Marshes' book
Ecological accounting informs design.
Design with Nature
