2.Halosere A plant community in a succession that starts on land periodically inundated by the sea. Haloseres include salt-and flooding-tolerant pioneer communities on mudflats and saltmarshes.
8.The mudflats here have witnessed tens of millions of years of history and experienced countless tides rising and falling, forming a unique ecological landscape.
10.On the train out to meet Spencer, I had marvelled at the Pitsea horizon, a nonsensical Thames estuary hillside towering over the mudflats, a Brecon Beacon of waste.
11.What you see when you glance at this environment are a bunch of what appear to be tunnels or mounds here, and these are made by the gases produced by the microbes living in this mudflat area.