| Submerged vegetation consisted of dense beds of eelgrass or green algae which occurred on intertidal mudflat habitat. |
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| The boundary between the mudflat and the retreating marsh is a unique environment. |
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| Most mudflat inhabitants will release thousands if not millions of gametes. |
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| Most mudflat animals protect themselves from extreme heat by burying themselves in the mud. |
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| As a physical characteristic it is one of the greatest stresses that both plants and animals of the mudflat have to contend with. |
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| Sub-zero temperatures create the potential for surface layers of the mudflat to freeze. |
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| The same water can be in an estuary during one part of the day, cover a mudflat some time later, then pound a rocky shoreline. |
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| The mudflat will be managed specifically for shorebirds and the overall, long-term success of this project will be monitored. |
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| The preponderance of evidence for intrasediment growth and dissolution of evaporites supports a sabkha and, in particular, a saline mudflat setting. |
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| During the time of Alexander the Great it was a navigable lake, but it is now an extensive mudflat, inundated during monsoon seasons. |
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| On the mudflat wasteland he set up a video camera mounted on a tripod. |
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| The resulting indentations are channels for incoming or outgoing tidal water and may change the structure of the mudflat at that location. |
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| This is one of the top locations for wattwandern, as mudflat hiking is called in Germany. |
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| Rather like an egret on a mudflat, he prowls around on his long legs with a sort of startled stillness. |
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| If they were constantly affected by large waves the sediment that constitutes the mudflat would be transported elsewhere. |
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| In extreme situations, storm waves will cause abnormal changes on a mudflat. |
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| It might be broken down even further, to become part of the silty sediment of a mudflat. |
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| Catastrophic events sometimes create situations that completely alter the properties of a mudflat for short periods of time. |
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| Their bills and long legs are well-adapted to feeding on a mudflat for those organisms that bury themselves in the soft mud. |
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| A range of physical characteristics affects what happens to a mudflat ecosystem. |
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| Horseshoe crabs have been spotted laying eggs on the island, which just a year ago wasn't suitable for them because it was a barren mudflat. |
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| He was pulled off the mudflat with a large cargo net and the help of the US Coast Guard. |
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| Most of the sediment within a mudflat is within the intertidal zone, and thus the flat is submerged and exposed approximately twice daily. |
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| I thought I would have to put down on a mudflat or beach but I actually reached Eastchurch – just – and got my wheels down and on to the ground intact. |
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| The mudflat at Stregrennan, which was made a special protection area at the request of the Commission, has been completely destroyed at this stage. |
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| The remaining will have to deal with the stresses of the mudflat. |
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| Go for a walk along a beach or mudflat at low tide and look for shells. |
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| Spring is the season in which most mudflat organisms reproduce. |
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| In 1999, a waste licence was given for use of 18 hectares of mudflat at Stagrennan Polder within the SPA for temporary storage of dredging spoil generated by deepening of the Boyne Estuary. |
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| Benthic microalgae are everywhere in the sediments of the mudflat. |
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| Shorebirds are also predators of the mudflat. |
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| Selective feeding by the mudskipper on the microalgal assemblage of a tropical mudflat. |
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| Several especially shallow mudflat areas, such as the Wadden Sea, are now popular among those practising the sport of mudflat hiking. |
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| They are often the first plants to take hold in a mudflat and begin its ecological succession into a salt marsh. |
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