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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In fact, scientists predict that if we keep going along our current greenhouse gas emissions trajectory, climate change will cause more than a third of the Earth’s animal and plant species to face ...

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 ...

This was a time when cyanobacteria significantly increased oxygen levels in the oceans and atmosphere ... will wipe out not only animals and plants but also entire ecosystems that rely on aerobic ...