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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The amount and form of carbon present in different ecosystem pools — such as plants, animals, air ... that has been buried at the bottom of the ocean or a swamp, and converted by heat and ...

“Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the ... It’s super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean. We don't think of animals other than humans having an impact ...

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 ...

Some adaptations of plants and animals are given ... Use this clip to introduce or recap study of ecosystems. Ask students to put together a presentation on a particular ecosystem.

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered how plants ... of ecosystem recovery following one of the most extreme periods of warming in Earth's history: the 'End-Permian Event'. With more than 80% of ocean species ...

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked ... without those critical nutrients, marine plants and animals wouldn’t survive. In summer, whales ...