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Charlotte Harbor Estuary is a natural estuary spanning the west coast of Florida from Venice to Bonita Springs on the Gulf of Mexico and is one of the most productive wetlands in Florida.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park )〕 The estuary has a large watershed, and includes Charlotte Harbor itself as well as the Peace River, Caloosahatchee River (via Pine Island Sound) and Myakka River basins. It covers , the second largest open water estuary in the state. It is classified as a bar-built estuary, formed when sandbars build up along the coastline. The sand bars block the waters behind them from the sea. Such estuaries tend to be shallow with minimal tidal action. This is a threatened ecosystem because of the rapid increase of growth and development, poor land-use policies, and the overuse of natural resources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charlette Harbor National Estuary Program )〕 The Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Preserves, established by the state of Florida in 1975, are five contiguous aquatic preserves within the greater Charlotte Harbor estuary. It includes salt marshes, mangroves, seagrass, oyster and tidal flats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Preserves )〕 It is the preserve of many species, including the Florida panther, American alligator, West Indian manatee, bald eagle, wood stork, piping plover, American crocodile, green and loggerhead sea turtles, Gulf sturgeon, royal false pawpaw (''Deeringothamnus pulchellus''), Florida perforate cladonia (''Cladonia perforata'') and many more.〔 Image:Floridian seagrass bed.jpg|Florida seagrass File:Caretta caretta01.jpg|Loggerhead turtle (closeup) Image:Mangroves.jpg|Coastal mangroves File:Johnsons seagrass bed.jpg|Florida seagrass bed ==Notes== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlotte Harbor (estuary)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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