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Winter Kill in lower intertidal	Cold damages mainly Corallines
	Those white areas are dead tissue

It ain’t the Tropics

Corallines are not winter hardy --- on image left the areas lower in intertidal have gone unscathed – but looks like when exposed long to air and cold the tissue dies

	Here it is in a midlevel tidal pool
	While the water line of tide pool doesn’t show in these images those parts above ‘permanent’ pool level, have been killed

Not only Corallines

	Prionitis stipes below or pre- break off to left

	Another tide pool
	I have stippled in this low tidal pool which again has the tissue that was exposed to cold air (above pool level) being damaged

Here is a coralline from lower intertidal that did not have such severe damage with only apical segments being damaged

Created by LG on Feb/15/2005

Last updated on Wednesday, February 16, 2005