By reducing the acidity of surrounding waters, seagrass ecosystems help protect animals with shells or external skeletons. In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses ...

Known for their powerful ability to launch out of the water in pursuit of prey, the loss of great white sharks from False Bay ...

An ecosystem is a natural environment in which animals, plants and organisms work to support life. This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to warm, nutrient-poor breeding areas through their urine, placentas, skin, and ...

In deep, dark ocean ecosystems, some bacteria use chemicals ... for example— to living things like plants and animals, and then back again to the environment. They’re like the ultimate ...

Ecology also provides information about the benefits of ecosystems and how we can use Earth’s resources in ways ... For example, ecologists may study microbes living in the soil under your feet or ...

Sharks are apex predators in our oceans ... in keeping the ecosystem functioning. A shark’s diet is comprised almost entirely ...

An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted ...