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Zonation in intertidal zone

Original - Marine biologists and others divide the intertidal region into three zones (low, middle, and high), based on the overall average exposure of the zone. The low intertidal zone, which borders on the shallow subtidal zone, is only exposed to air at the lowest of low tides and is primarily marine in character. The mid intertidal zone is regularly exposed and submerged by average tides. The high intertidal zone is only covered by the highest of the high tides, and spends much of its time as terrestrial habitat. The high intertidal zone borders on the swash zone (the region above the highest still-tide level, but which receives wave splash). On shores exposed to heavy wave action, the intertidal zone will be influenced by waves, as the spray from breaking waves will extend the intertidal region above the high tide line. The image shows all of those zones from the sea anemones at the bottom (low tide zone) to mussels and barnacles in swash zone.

Reason

High quality, high EV, hard (because of the very rare opportunities) to obtain image. The image shows dozens of different types of tide pools animals in their natural habitat. The main reason is that tonight is New Year Night, so I hope that after the celebration everybody is going to be in a high spirit and support my image :) Happy New Year!

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Intertidal zone

Creator

mbz1

• Info Sea anemones you see at the bottom of the image are under the water. The tide comes and goes constantly. The tide brings anemones their food.
• Support as nominator --Mbz1 (talk) 20:49, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support - Interesting. Excellent EV, quality, and caption and provides a variety of specimens to illustrate the zonation of tide pools in an intertidal region. Nice job, ZooFari 05:46, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

• Comment. Excellent EV and fascinating content. However, I noticed quite a few minor technical errors which (if possible) I'd like to see fixed. I've uploaded an annotated version of the image since it's difficult to describe the locations of all the issues. If there's nothing you can realistically do to fix the blurred areas, then that's fine, but I'd like to see the obvious brush marks and places where clear repeated patterns have been created by the clone tool fixed. I realise that some of these issues are very minor, but they add up to be a more substantial problem; if you could eliminate as many of them as possible then I'd be prepared to support. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 10:50, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Well, you are right about some situations, cannot agree with some others. If I am to spend lots of time on the image, I might be able to fix some problems, or maybe I will try to take another set of the images one day, but probably not. I like to go to tide pools, but it is way too slippery to carry a tripod and expensive camera I guess, so next time I will go, it will be for my own enjoyment only :) In a meantime I'd like to thank you all for the comment and the vote, and I withdraw the nomination.--Mbz1 (talk) 19:44, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

• Withdrawn by nominator. Makeemlighter (talk) 01:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)