- vascular plants via plumbing (grass, trees, cabbage) vs. algae
- generic term plant
- seaweed algae synonymous; kelp are a specific member of algae
- microhabitat: a neighborhood, local terrain and ecosystem
- sub 1km
- california focus
- different physical conditions
- varied topography
- shell sand strips, horizontal streaks
- rock bench
- watery channels
- white-plate clusters on exposed beach
- silty and damp
- a book about how plants and animals of different body designs live where they do, not why they have those designs or why they live there
- no phylogenetics, evolutionary history; how the structure of a plant or animals affects its performance of specific functions but not evolution
- different effects determine where an intertidal organism lives
- physical conditions able to tolerate
- organismal interactions
- predation
- outcompetition and abundancy
- human effects and environmental changes
- spatial patterns
- biophysics: the physics of living things (molecular movement and change)
- biophysical ecologists study physical conditions, effects of living things on physical conditions, mechanisms used for survival
- intuitive biophysics; non-scientific jargon
c2
- eddy: a circular vortex of fluid diffusing biomaterial
- substratum: solid surface where an organism resides
- water needs to constantly flow; needs to have constant incurred substances, change of nutrients and waste concentration
- colonize on coast rafting in water
- local speed determines where sediment is deposed and deposited