1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 THE ECOLOGY OF MARSH GRASSES IN THE ESTUARIES OF THE CAPE FEAR RIVER Pat T. Student A Final Project Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Graduate Liberal Studies Program Gerontology Concentration University of North Carolina Wilmington 2005 Approved by Advisory Committee _________________________________ _________________________________ Chair Accepted by _________________________________ Director, GLS Program Note: All entries are centered on a page with a left margin of 1.5 inches and a right margin of 1 inch. Tops and bottoms are also 1 inch. Electronic versions (archived on a CD) use a left margin of 1 inch with all other margins the same as the paper version.