Threatened Habitats: Intertidal Zones

Intertidal zones may support as many as two thousand species, but these interfaces between land and sea are in jeopardy from coastal development, land-based runoff, and ocean pollution.

photo © by Art Wolfe

Ocean Planet Exhibition Floorplan

gene carl feldman (gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9428
Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)