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 "description": "<DIV STYLE=\"text-align:Left;font-size:12pt\"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;p&gt;This layer characterizes bottom-living plants and animals in Galveston Bay and principal plant communities within the park. &lt;/p&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dl&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dt&gt;Grassflats&lt;/dt&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dd&gt;Shallow bay margin with dense grasses, moderately diverse mollusk assemblage, depth &lt;5 feet.&lt;/dd&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dt&gt;Bay with Reef&lt;/dt&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dd&gt;Enclosed bay with reef, away from tidal or river influence, mottled mud, high species diversity, infauna, mollusks, scattered clumps of oyster reefs, depth 3 to 8 feet.&lt;/dd&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dt&gt;Fresh to brackish-water bodies&lt;/dt&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dd&gt;Land-locked ponds and lakes, variable substrates, coastal bodies temporarily brackish or saline&lt;/dd&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dt&gt;Beach&lt;/dt&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dd&gt;Low tide to 5 feet above sea level, beach, swash zone, high energy, sand, shell debris infauna, back-beach sea-oats and halophytes, dunes, ghost crab. &lt;/dd&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dt&gt;Barrier flat and dune&lt;/dt&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dd&gt;vegetated barrier flat, foredune ridge, beach ridge, and vegetated flat, relief 5 to 15 feet, salt-tolerant grasses, rare mesquite and live oak-trees, ghost crab, small rodents, snakes, fowl.&lt;/dd&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dt&gt;Tidal flats&lt;/dt&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dd&gt;Sandflats, a few inches above mean sea level, undulatory sand surface with blue-green algal mats, thin halite film, marsh plants rare&lt;/dd&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dt&gt;Salt-water marsh&lt;/dt&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;dd&gt;Salt-water marsh, frequently inundated by tides, sand, muddy sand to mud, cordgrass, glasswort, seepweed, sea-oxeye, mammals, fowl.&lt;/dd&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>&lt;/dl&gt;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>",
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