On Fidalgo Island in the U.S., the Swinomish tribe is working to protect the intertidal zone from future heat waves with clam gardens, an ancient practice that could help keep clams cool.

On beaches from Alaska to Washington State, First Nations and tribal communities built rock-walled terraces in the intertidal zone to bolster populations of shellfish and other invertebrates.

The soft-shell clams live underneath the mud and use their siphons to pull in water from above, from which they filter out tiny bits of food.

Bills and her team dug three trenches from the top of the wet sand into the intertidal zone. From there, the students shoveled sand into garden carts, which were wheeled into the ocean.

They live along the offshore ocean floor up to 2,000 feet deep, but in late summer, we find the crab washing up in the intertidal zone, and a large majority are female (199 in 200 crabs found were ...

Clams, like a supercharged version of the oyster, are nature’s water purifier, each filtering several gallons of water per day. Multiply that by tens of millions, and consider additional tens of ...

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Melody S. Clark, Michael A. S. Thorne, Michelle King, Helen Hipperson, Joseph I. Hoffman, Lloyd S. Peck, Life in the intertidal, Functional Ecology, Vol. 32, No. 8 ...