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Coastal Habitats

A habitat is the environment where a population of plants or animals lives and grows. Sometimes it is difficult to say where one habitat ends and another begins, so we have chosen the major coastal habitats found near Adelaide. Click on a photo for more information or to download a fact sheet.

mangrove
seagrass
estuary
Mangroves
Seagrass meadows
Estuaries
beachdunes
reefs
rocks
Beaches and dunes
Temperate reefs
(photo courtesy SA Museum)
Rocky intertidal shores
ocean
Open ocean
(photo courtesy SA Museum