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 ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

Southern elephant seals are the 'canary in the coal mine' for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may react to future climate change and human impact, new research shows.

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

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 ...