hectare per year (tC ha-1 yr-1). Management efforts are made so that the role of these plants in climate change abatement can reach its highest potential. This paper presents an overview of plants found in soft bottom communities‚ their biology‚ ecology‚ benefits‚ role in climate
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ecologist is an important venture‚ especially for an earth-science oriented person with a love for nature and animals. With the number of ecological disasters escalating every year there is an ever increasing need for ecologists and people trained in ecology. Along with these disasters there are hundreds of animals and plants that are disappearing off the planet everyday. There is also an increasing demand for a person with the training to take care for‚ rehabilitate and then return to the wild injure
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the Road-An Ecosophy of Life: One of the important subfields of Ecocriticism is Ecosophy or ecological philosophy. It is commonly known as ‘the philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium’. The term was coined by the Norwegian father of deep ecology Arne Naess and French Post-modernist philosopher Felix Guattari. Naess’s definition of ecosophy is as follows: “By an ecosophy‚ I mean a philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium. A philosophy as a kind of sofia (or) wisdom‚ is openly normative
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organisms that have this ability use bioluminescence for a variety of reasons. Such as a type of camouflage‚ to attract prey or mates‚ escape from predators‚ or as a type of communication. (Bioluminescence) The Flashlight fish or Lantern fish is a deep sea fish that moves primarily at night. It is most recognized by its black body‚ bluish dorsal‚ and caudal fins. This fish gets its name from the glowing smile it appears to have. The “smile” is created by bacteria that live inside the “light” in the
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patterns of brown algae often to be found on rocky shores. Precise and universal demarcation of these zones is impossible (Brehaut‚ 1982)‚ but a comprehension of the vertical zonation of rocky shores is clearly essential to an understanding of their ecology. The first attempts to differentiate zones were based on tidal classification (Boaden & Seed‚ 1985). It is easy to distinguish (Brehaut‚ 1982) a sub-littoral zone (one which is never completely uncovered by water)‚ a supra-littoral zone (never
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nested once on Lamma Island‚ have not been seen there for more than one decade‚ and there has been an increase in invertebrate attacks on coral communities in marine parks‚ the result of over harvesting of predators and an imbalance in the marine ecology‚ Chu said. Clusters of delicate marine organisms form coral reefs in a process that may take millions of years. The reefs are built up from the calcium carbonate‚ secreted by tiny animals which secrete the bone like material as an exoskeleton
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Earth: A Living Planet To care for our planet we must understand how it opperates. Ecology is the study of interactions of organisms with one another and with their physical surroundings. Scientists who study ecology are called ecologists. Earts is a biosphere‚ or a living globe. The biosphere is that part of the Earth in which life exists. Biospheres include all the areas of land‚ air‚ and water on the planet. The biosphere goes about eight kilometers above the Earth’s surface to as far as eight
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Danielle Sedoris November 11‚ 2009 Ecology – Friday Parasitic Crab Lab Background: Mellita quinquiesperforata‚ commonly known as the sand dollar‚ is a familiar urchin on Florida coastlines. The species is flat and disk shaped that nestles into shallow sandy waters to protect itself from waves and predators. Dissodactylus mellitae is a parasitic crab that feeds on the spines of the hosting sand dollar where it remains its entire life. This study was arranged to observe the distribution patterns
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2011 Professor: Abstract Dolphins are a fun and playful species. They have evolved to be well suited for their aquatic environments. Over many years these animals have gone from land dwellers to deep-sea divers. These amazing creatures are considered one of the top predators in the marine ecology system. The Evolution of Dolphins Imagine you are at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom swimming with the dolphins. The trainers explain that all these dolphins have been bread in captivity‚ and to not
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largemouth bass‚ which depend heavily on their → good color vision to find prey. Although only olive-brown offspring are found‚ the original parents produced hundreds of gold‚ red‚ white and olive-brown offspring among the brown rocky and weedy → shallows of the pond. The largemouth bass serve as a selector‚ picking out prey that are most visible and obvious. Natural selection implies that there is variety and that some of the forms are more adapted than others. In this case‚ the variety is color
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