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Bookmark or Share- Life in an estuary - National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationEstuaries are areas of water and shoreline where rivers meet the ocean or another large body of water, such as one of the Great Lakes. Organisms that live in estuaries must be adapted to these dynamic environments, where there are variations in water chemistry including salinity, as well as physical changes like the rise and fall of tides.
- What is an estuary? Estuaries Tutorial - National Oceanic and ...Estuaries are bodies of water and their surrounding coastal habitats typically found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries harbor unique plant and animal communities because their waters are brackish—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.
- Estuaries Tutorial: NOAA's National Ocean Service EducationEstuaries are bodies of water and their surrounding coastal habitats typically found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries harbor unique plant and animal communities because their waters are brackish—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.
- Estuary - National Geographic SocietyAn estuary is an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean. In estuaries, the salty ocean mixes with a freshwater river, resulting in brackish water. Brackish water is somewhat salty, but not as salty as the ocean. An estuary may also be called a bay, lagoon, sound, or slough. Water continually circulates into and out of an estuary.
- Estuaries: Where the River Meets the Sea - NatureEstuaries are commonly described as semi-enclosed bodies of water, situated at the interface between land and ocean, where sea water is measurably diluted by the inflow of freshwater (Hobbie,...
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