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The Role Of Animals In The Salt Marsh
This experiment was done to see what species lives in what part of the salt marsh. We hypothesized that Spartina would be more abundant in the low marsh. Salicornia would be more abundant in the high marsh. Elevation would increase the further away from sea level we got and animals would be more abundant closer to the water. We went to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina to a salt marsh and measured 100 meters from the water into the high marsh. Every ten meters we would drop a quadrat and count the amount of plants and animals that were in each quadrat. We also took the elevation at every ten meters. We found that in transect three which had a stream alongside it has more animals and plants than transect one which had the road alongside it.
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