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Life Is a Marginal Affair
- "It has been aptly said that life is a marginal affair. Most of it occurs at or near boundaries or interfaces... Similarly, physical and biotic boundaries within the earth's thin living biosphere are of special interest and commonly contain more species and more dynamic interactions than do the central parts of biotic communties... Of all these transitional zones, those between land and the sea are the sharpest, most varied, richest, and most subject to change." - excerpt from the book, The Audubon Society Nature Guides: Pacific Coast, 1985, pg. 19.
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