Intertidal area of coast where solid rock predominates
The rise and fall of tides on a rocky shore can define a volatile habitat for marine life
Rocky shore in Lanzarote, Spain
Rocky beach in Canary Islands
Rocky shore in Batanes, Philippines
Rocky shore in Leblon, Brazil
A rocky shore is an intertidal area of seacoasts where solid rock predominates. Rocky shores are biologically rich environments, and are a useful "natural laboratory" for studying intertidal ecology and other biological processes. Due to their high accessibility, they have been well studied for a long time and their species are well known.[1][2]
^J H Connell, Community Interactions on Marine Rocky Intertidal Shores. 1972. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematic Vol. 3: 169-192
^J. Harrison Stark (1964). The Ecology of Rocky Shores. English Universities Press, London.
A rockyshore is an intertidal area of seacoasts where solid rock predominates. Rockyshores are biologically rich environments, and are a useful "natural...
successfully exploiting narrow vertical zones along the rockyshore. The species inhabiting Hong Kong's rocky coastal areas vary depending the exposure to the...
Depending on the substratum and topography of the shore, additional features may be noticed. On rockyshores, tide pools form in depressions that fill with...
scale for measuring the degree of exposure level of wave action on a rockyshore. Devised in 1961 by W. J. Ballantine, then at the zoology department...
zones on rockyshores. It is primarily found growing around the rims of tide pools, but can be found in shallow crevices anywhere on the rockyshore that...
currents. The relative solidity of rockyshores seems to give them a permanence compared to the shifting nature of sandy shores. This apparent stability is not...
this coast are sandy shores interspersed with rockyshores and several rivers, which empty into the Gulf of Guinea. Well-known rocky beaches on the West...
species with a dark and sometimes banded shell. It is native to the rockyshores of the northeastern, and introduced to the northwestern, Atlantic Ocean...
Scania, Sweden, which contains a number of rare species and a scenic rockyshore, the town of Mölle, which has a picturesque harbour and views into the...
Vasilyevsky Island in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, which had its western shore extended westward by some 0.5 km in the construction of the Passenger Port...
inhabits the littoral zone (nearshore waters) and within that zone, on rockyshores more than on sand or shingle. In addition, there are few genera (e.g...
scattered here in 1995 and 2008. Hālona Blowhole is a blowhole in the rockyshore. A large pull-out/parking area is present. The adjacent Hālona Cove is...
provide nursery habitat for finfish, shellfish, and other aquatic species. Rockyshores are usually found along exposed coasts and provide habitat for a wide...
pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore. These pools typically range from a few inches to a few feet deep...
in estuarine waters along the Atlantic coasts. This species prefers rockyshores, where it eats mussels and acorn barnacles. The dog whelk shell is small...
Singapore with a natural rockyshore. The wetlands are unique as several ecosystems can be observed in one area – sandy beach, rocky beach, seagrass lagoon...
Licciano, M.; Terlizzi, A. (2003-12-01). "Polychaete assemblages along a rockyshore on the South Adriatic coast (Mediterranean Sea): patterns of spatial...
only rocky sea-cliff on the mainland that is accessible to the public. Since 2002, 10 hectares of coastal secondary-type vegetation and its rockyshore have...
being studied, the broadest of classifications being based on substrates—rockyshore and soft bottom communities. Organisms living in this zone have a highly...
Pachygrapsus crassipes, the striped shore crab or lined shore crab, is a small crab found on both rocky and hard-mud soft seashores of the northeastern...
Rocky Point Park was an amusement park on the Narragansett Bay shore of Warwick, Rhode Island. It operated from the late 1840s until it closed in 1995...
to warty or fruticose thalli. A close look at almost any intertidal rockyshore or coral reef will reveal an abundance of pink to pinkish-grey patches...
the polar regions, and inhabit marine benthic (sea bed) habitats, from rockyshores to hadal zone depths. The fossil record of the Echinoids dates from the...
hangs dripping as she reaches to two attendants standing barefoot on the rockyshore on either side of her, lifting her out of the water. Scenes with Aphrodite...
the local landscape, and are part of the Whin Sill. The walk along the rockyshore to the north along leads to the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle. The remains...
Other animals in the zoo's collections are rescues from the wild (see RockyShores). Utah's Hogle Zoo is also accredited by the World Association of Zoos...
campaigns of the society have involved Olive-Ridley Sea Turtles, intertidal rockyshore fauna and flora of the Visakhapatnam coast, and butterflies of the Eastern...
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