the natural buffer between various dissimilar areas: aquatic (freshwater) vs. marine (saltwater), often referred to as brackish; water vs. terrestrial (land); inundated vs. exposed.
In Connecticut, the entire length of our coastline, as well as the entire Long Island Sound, is defined as an Estuarine ecotone or ,simply, an estuary. These coastal zones have a variety of defining chararcteristics:
• Salinity, or the amount of dissolved minerals in solution, will range between 0.5 to 3.0 parts…
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