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Corallines hit	Can’t take the cold

The exact shading hard to get with digital cameras

Either too pink or too white so the close ups show the effects better as below

	Cold winds did it?
	Here the same species of coralline algae survived on the shelf where probably flow water from mussel bed but dies on the slope down – suggesting wind chill to me

	Lower tidal level too
	Again the submerged crust like coralline retains its pinkish color while the same species above has 75% mortality

Close-ups

On the left both the crustose and upright genera of coralline algae are affected

While not shown here the lower inter tidal areas where the swell are strongest went unscathed; presumably splashed with ‘warm’ water sufficiently to protect them from freezing during same exposures as above

Created by LG on Feb/26/2005

Last updated on Saturday, February 26, 2005