That's how I ended up making a pilgrimage out to the Sonoma Coast to  traipse through the intertidal zone.

，踏上了前往索诺玛海岸的朝圣之旅，穿梭潮间带。

(Laughter) So these dog whelks live in the intertidal area of coasts, where, it turns out, they're a pretty key part of the ecosystem.

（笑声） 所以这些狗海螺活在海岸的潮间带地区，事实证明， 它们态系统的重要成部分。

If you have an oyster reef that's " intertidal" — that sticks up at low tide — then it can perform some of that wave energy protection function.

如果在“潮间带”有一个牡蛎礁——在低潮期时它会竖起突出——那么它就可以发挥一些波浪能保护功能。

People would arrange the intertidal zone, kind of managing the hydrology to create areas where clams would just grow in sort of hyperabundance that they could then come and harvest.

人们会整理潮间带，管理水文， 创造出蛤蜊大的区域， 然后他们就可以来收获了。

The last category of coastal wetlands that experience seawater or tidal influences are the Intertidal flats – these are flat areas subjected to tides that are too unstable in terms of sediments and so remain unvegetated.

最后一类受海水或潮汐影响的沿海湿地潮间带——这些受到潮汐影响的平坦区域，由沉积物太不稳定，因此没有植被覆盖。