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Marine Ecology

Marine Ecology

Marine Ecology, a sub-discipline of Ecology, is an integrative science focused on research on and assessment of the biotic and abiotic components and processes of Earth's marine and oceanic environments. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that oceans comprise an astonishing 70 percent of the Earth's surface.

 

This environmental medium is supplemented by estuaries and coastal areas, and such other brackish bodies of water as the Great Lakes. Marine environments and their ecology are, therefore, critical for life, human habitation, and food and other natural resources. Also, basic and applied marine ecological research address human activity that affects ocean ecosystem composition, structure and function.

    • Overfishing Featured Article Overfishing Overfishing

      Overfishing is the human act of extracting aquatic (that is, marine and freshwater) fauna from natural water bodies at a rate greater than the reproductive and recruitment... More »

    • Benthos Featured Article Benthos Benthos

      Benthos is one of three major ecological groups into which marine organisms are divided, the other two being the nekton and the plankton. The benthos are organisms and... More »

    • Indigo hamlet Featured Article Indigo hamlet Indigo hamlet

      The indigo hamlet (scientific name: Hypoplectrus indigo) is a member of the grouper/seabass family (Family Serranidae) that live on coral reefs in the Western Atlantic Ocean... More »

    • Catching a Coral Killer Featured News Catching a Coral Killer Catching a Coral Killer

      First ever case of human-caused marine disease. Catching a Coral Killer Coral reefs play an important role in marine ecosystems, so it's concerning to scientists,... More »

    • Porkfish Featured Article Porkfish Porkfish

      The porkfish (scientific name: Anisotremus virginicus) is a member of the grunt family (Family Haemulidae) that lives on coral reefs in the Western Atlantic Ocean and... More »

    • Dusky damselfish Featured Article Dusky damselfish Dusky damselfish

      The dusky damselfish (scientific name: Stegastes adustus) is a member of the damselfish family (Family Pomacentridae) that lives on coral reefs in the Western... More »

    • Marine microbes Featured Article Marine microbes Marine microbes

      Introduction The term 'Marine microbes' encompasses all microscopic organisms generally found in saltwater. Most micro-organisms are acellular and fall into... More »

    • Emperor penguin Featured Article Emperor penguin Emperor penguin

      The Emperor penguin (scientific name: Aptenodytes forsteri G. R. Gray, 1844) is one of seventeen species of flightless birds in the family of penguins, and with the King... More »

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