• 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