| These are the mudflats that the alien spartina we have introduced is now turning to meadows. |
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| Determined to get a river view, I climbed a high bank and looked across windswept spartina grass. |
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| Decaying spartina grass breaks into small pieces called detritus fueling the bottom of the food chain. |
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| The spartina grass excretes salt crystals in order to survive the high salinity of sea water. |
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| At low tide sea oats and spartina grasses bend before the breeze. |
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| So does listening to the warbling trills of red-winged blackbirds that call across the endless spartina grass that all seems to grow to exactly the same height. |
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| Ribbed mussels, green algae and species of brown algae are often seen at the base of the mats of Spartina. |
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| A serpentine array of tidal creeks lined with tall-form Spartina occur throughout the marsh. |
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| Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, both species feed exclusively on the phloem sap of cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora. |
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| Late spring is the best time to plant grasses that originate from warmer climates, such as Miscanthus, Spartina and Panicum. |
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| Ecophysiological needs of the potential biomass crop Spartina townsendii Grov. |
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| It is a protected habitat characterized as a high productivity zone due to the presence of seagrass beds of Zostera and Spartina, and phytoplankton. |
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| In recent years, he enjoyed cruising the east coast and the Bahamas with his wife, Heidi, on their sailboat Spartina, and had recently become an avid cyclist. |
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