The Sea Shore Ecology of Hong KongThis book reviews the factors creating and maintaining Hong Kong's living shore, and describes the wide range of plants and animals found within the intertidal boundaries of the shore. A full range from exposure to shelter is to be found, from communities of the sheer rock faces, beaten by the storm waves of the South China Sea, to the denizens of mudflats in high shelter at the heads of harbours and inlets. |
Contents
Its Climate and Hydrography | 3 |
Wharf Piles | 6 |
The Tidal Shore and its Zoning | 15 |
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algae algal anemone animal attached Balanus barnacles beach bivalves boulders branches brown burrow byssus Cape D'Aguilar carapace cavity chelae cm long coast colour COMMENSAL common commonest coral coralline crabs crevices Crustacea Deep Bay eulittoral exposed shores fauna feeding fish fringe gastropods green grey habitat Hong Kong species hydroids inter-tidal Island japonica Kong's Lantau Lantau Island limpets littorine living lower shore mangroves mantle marshes metres mobile molluscs mouth mud-flats mussels Nerita operculum oyster parapodia particles Phylum Ping Chau plants Pollicipes polychaete polyps pools proboscis protected flats rock rocky shores Saccostrea salinity salt-meadow sand sand-flats Sargassum Scopimera sediments shell sheltered Shiu Hau shrimps silty siphons slender snails soft shores sponges squamosa sub-littoral sub-tidal surface Tai Tam Harbour tentacles Tetraclita tidal tides Tolo Harbour tropical Tsim Bei Tsui tube typical valve Waglan Island wave worms zonation zone Zoysia