salt-tolerant

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• Salt-resistant — or salt tolerant plants are plants that can withstand more than average amounts of salt. They are particularly important in drought afflicted and coastal areas. Some plants, e.g. Salicornia, are naturally salt resistant while others can be… …   Wikipedia

• Salt marsh — A salt marsh is a type of marsh that is a transitional intertidal between land and salty or brackish water (e.g.: sloughs, bays, estuaries). It is dominated by halophytic (salt tolerant) herbaceous plants. Historically, salt marshes have… …   Wikipedia

• salt-rising bread — noun white wheat bread raised by a salt tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp • Hypernyms: ↑bread, ↑breadstuff, ↑staff of life * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : bread raised by a portion of the sponge of sourdough… …   Useful english dictionary

• salt marsh —   an area of semi vegetated tidal mudflat that becomes increasingly vegetated as sediments accumulate in sheltered waters allowing salt tolerant plants to colonise them …   Geography glossary

• tolerant — tol|e|rant [ˈtɔlərənt US ˈta: ] adj 1.) allowing people to do, say, or believe what they want without criticizing or punishing them ≠ ↑intolerant →↑tolerate tolerant of/towards ▪ Luckily, my parents were tolerant of my choice of music. ▪ a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse — Taxobox name = Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse status = VU trend = unknown status system = iucn2.3 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia familia = Cricetidae subfamilia = Neotominae genus = Reithrodontomys species = R.… …   Wikipedia

• California coastal salt marsh — California s coastal salt marsh is a wetland plant community that occurs sporadically along the Pacific coast from Humboldt Bay to San Diego. This salt marsh type is found in bays, harbors, inlets and other protected areas subject to tidal… …   Wikipedia

• Dry lake — Salt Flat redirects here. For the settlement, see Salt Flat, Texas. Devil s Golf Course in Death Valley National Park, western United States …   Wikipedia

• Sahara — Saharan, Saharian, adj. /seuh har euh, hair euh, hahr euh/, n. 1. a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. ab. 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km). 2. any arid waste. * * * Largest desert in the world, encompassing… …   Universalium

• Halotolerance — is the adaptation of living organisms to conditions of high salinity. Halotolerant species tend to live in areas such as coastal dunes, saline deserts, salt marshes, and inland salt seas and springs. Halophiles are a group of bacteria that live… …   Wikipedia

• Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology       In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …   Universalium