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 ...

This Singapore plant is one example of a slew of recent ... And when they involve the oceans — complex ecosystems already under huge strain from global warming — criticisms can get even ...

Plants are the autotrophs in their ecosystems ... either. In deep, dark ocean ecosystems, some bacteria use chemicals like hydrogen sulfide as their energy supply instead. It’s wild down there!

Whales do more than just swim the seas—they power the ocean's ecosystem. By transporting nutrients from deep waters to the ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to ...

In most ecosystems, sunlight is absorbed and converted ... different primary producers (marine phytoplankton and land plants). The oceans cover a much larger area than the land, so per area ...

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

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

Plant debris is less recalcitrant, resulting in a much shorter residence time in soil. Other ecosystem processes ... GT (Oelkers & Cole 2008). Only the ocean has a larger carbon pool, at about ...

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 ...