That thing resides in salt marshes off the California coast.

那种生物存在于加利福尼亚沿海的盐沼里。

Staten Island is also thick with unbanded salt marsh mosquitoes.

斯塔滕岛也有大量没有条纹的盐沼蚊子。

It is the domain of the black salt marsh mosquito.

那里是黑色盐沼蚊子的领地。

Let's return to the California salt marshes and see what happens if we disrupt the parasite balance.

让我们回到加利福尼亚盐沼地，看一看如果我们打破了寄生虫生存平衡会发生什么。

At Dafeng, a small salt marsh reserve is home to an animal which is lucky to be alive.

在大丰市，一处小的盐沼保护区里，住着一种侥幸生存下来的动物。

Living in salt marshes along the east coast of North America, it can go about a year without eating.

生活在北美东海岸的盐沼中，它可以一年不吃东西。

Salt marshes and mangroves in tidal zones can reduce wave heights and total wave energy by more than 50%.

潮汐区的盐沼和红树林可以将波高和总波能降低 50% 以上。

When you had a complex 3 dimensional shoreline that is both oyster reefs and salt marsh and all that working together.

当你有一个复杂的三维海岸线，牡蛎礁和盐沼以及所有这些共同工作。

In 2016, the Felix Neck Wildlife Refuge in Edgartown, Massachusetts, built barriers around a salt marsh that had eroded in the past.

2016年，马萨诸塞州埃德加敦的费利克斯奈克野生动物保护区在一片过去被侵蚀的盐碱地周围修建了屏障。

Wetlands, salt marsh, a lot of grasslands.

湿地，盐沼，一大片草原。

Salt marshes are among the least inviting environments for plants.

盐沼是最不适合植物生长的环境之一。

Salt marshes are among the least inviting environments for plants.

海碱沼泽是植物最难以生存的环境之一。

In fact, the spartina genus is the dominant plant found in salt marshes.

事实上，米草属是在海碱地带发现的主要的植物。

But coping with salt is not the only challenge for plants in the salt marsh.

但是应对盐分并不是盐沼植物面临的唯一挑战。

Well, it is because salt marsh grasses have found ways to adapt to the conditions there.

好吧，这是因为盐沼草找到了适应那里条件的方法。

Researchers used experimental testing and mathematical modeling to uncover how fairy circles form in salt marshes.

研究人员使用实验测试和数学模型来揭示仙女圈是如何在盐沼中形成的。

Well, it's because salt marsh grasses have found ways to adapt to the conditions there.

嗯，这是因为，这个属的植物通过各种方式适应了海碱地的环境。

Well, we know that coastal ocean ecosystems like mangroves or seagrasses or salt marshes are some of the most effective carbon sinks on the planet.

嗯，我们都知道近海生态系统，如：红树林、海草以及盐碱滩，是地球上最高效的净碳槽之一。

You can find one type of spartina, salt marsh cordgrass, growing in low marsh areas.

这个属中，生活在地势低的海碱地带的一般叫做海泽琴弦草。

But in salt marshes, these shapes are part of early development—a stepping stone to establishing widespread expanses of vegetation.

但在盐沼中，这些形状是早期发育的一部分——是建立广泛植被的垫脚石。