Talk:Littoral zone

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[edit] Add PO definition

In physical_oceanography the littoral zone refers to coastal regions of significant tidal flow, frequently extending to the continental shelf break, or to depths of nearly 200 m. The physical processes generally include non-linear flows, internal waves, river outflows, oceanic fronts, and submarine canyons. rmo13 02:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Supralittoral, Sublittoral

Supralittoral zone and Sublittoral zone don't seem to have much going on, and even rehash some material that belongs here. ENeville 21:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I would add that there is reason to merge littoral zone, in turn, with other articles. See Talk:Intertidal zone. ENeville 22:11, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Seems a good idea to me - merge the articles and put in redirects, having seperate articles for all the different zones is unnecessary fragmentation, a single article covering zones in general makes much more sense.Trewornan 00:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• yes, merge them, theyre all similiar, so merge them —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.181.107 (talk) 03:39, August 29, 2007 (UTC)
• No leave them separate. They are usually treated separately in marine biology experiments and papers, and they are linked here any way so it's easy to get from one to the others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.12.240.111 (talk) 14:31, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
• Yes, sublittoral should be merged. It has very little information of a normal encyclopedic type and, apparently, few/no editors have been interested in responding to improve the existing article. I take no position on which article sublittoral should be merged with, whether littoral, or intertidal, or what. But one article covering zones of the beaches, Intertidal zone, etc. of theContinental shelf would be more useful, it seems to me. N2e 20:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
• No, keep them separate. They are ecologically and biologically distinct, and it would be possible to expand each article with a discussion along these lines. For example many species of seagrass form extensive meadows in the sublittoral zone, but don't occur in the other zones. Seagrass meadows are of course an important habitat for some marine fauna. And so it goes, giving the sublittoral zone its own distinct character. Hesperian 11:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• No, keep them separate. For anyone researching this topic they are extraordinarily different and will be searched for as different topics completely. Each separate one could have its own content if a user were to take the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcg414 (talk • contribs) 21:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)