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A drift line or wrack line, also known as a wash marginLeser (2005), p. 870. or wash fringe (german: Spülsaum) is an area of the shore on which material is deposited or washed up. It often runs along the margin of a waterbody and there can be several bands due to variations in water levels. As a result of the richness of nutrients that occur in such wash fringes,
Information on wash margin vegetation by the Wattenmeer Nature Conservation StationWhat is the STRANDLINE?
durhambiodiversity.org.uk
Strandline Description (English)
eunis.eea.europa.eu
Soil seed bank and driftline composition along a successional gradient on a temperate salt marsh
bioone.org *Page 9: "Setting: Intertidal Zones" in
Effects of Coastal Armoring on Sandy Beach Ecosystems
wa.water.usgs.gov Geomorphology Beaches {{geomorph-stub
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A drift line or wrack line, also known as a wash marginLeser (2005), p. 870. or wash fringe (german: Spülsaum) is an area of the shore on which material is deposited or washed up. It often runs along the margin of a waterbody and there can be several bands due to variations in water levels. As a result of the richness of nutrients that occur in such wash fringes, ruderal species
A ruderal species is a plant species that is first to colonize disturbed lands. The disturbance may be natural for example, wildfires or avalanchesor the consequences of human activities, such as construction ( of roads, of buildings, mining, et ...
frequently occur here, that, for example, on the Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
coast consist of grassleaf orache
''Atriplex littoralis'', the grassleaf orache or grass-leaved orache (; also spelled orach) is a species of shrub in the family Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference t ...
and sea kale
''Crambe maritima'', common name sea kale, seakale or crambe, is a species of halophytic (salt-tolerant) flowering plant in the genus ''Crambe'' of the family Brassicaceae. It grows wild along the coasts of mainland Europe and the British Isl ...
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See also
*High water mark
A high water mark is a point that represents the maximum rise of a body of water over land. Such a mark is often the result of a flood, but high water marks may reflect an all-time high, an annual high (highest level to which water rose that ...
*Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide (in other words, the area within the tidal range). This area can include several types of habitats with various species o ...
References
Literature
* Leser, Hartmut, ed. (2005). ''Wörterbuch Allgemeine Geographie'', 13th ed., Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, .External links
Information on wash margin vegetation by the Wattenmeer Nature Conservation Station
durhambiodiversity.org.uk
Strandline Description (English)
eunis.eea.europa.eu
Soil seed bank and driftline composition along a successional gradient on a temperate salt marsh
bioone.org *Page 9: "Setting: Intertidal Zones" in
Effects of Coastal Armoring on Sandy Beach Ecosystems
wa.water.usgs.gov Geomorphology Beaches {{geomorph-stub