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Tidal Flat Areas

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies ((COASTAL,volume 22))

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Tidal flat areas are parts of estuaries without macrophyte growth which emerge at low tide, excluding beaches which differ from tidal flats by the dominance of surf. Macrophytes mostly form the high tide and tidal creeks the low tide boundary.

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  1. Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands

    H. Postma

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  1. Askö Laboratory, University of Stockholm, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden

    Bengt-Owe Jansson

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Postma, H. (1988). Tidal Flat Areas. In: Jansson, BO. (eds) Coastal-Offshore Ecosystem Interactions. Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52452-3_5

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