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  2. Marine microorganisms - Wikipedia

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    Bacteria also live in symbiotic and parasitic relationships with plants and animals. Once regarded as plants constituting the class Schizomycetes , bacteria are now classified as prokaryotes . Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes , bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles .

  3. Marine prokaryotes - Wikipedia

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    Bacteria also live in symbiotic and parasitic relationships with plants and animals. Once regarded as plants constituting the class Schizomycetes , bacteria are now classified as prokaryotes . Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes , bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles .

  4. Study finds disturbing amount of fecal contamination at U.S ...

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    As the summer season gets underway, a new report finds that many coastal U.S. waterways, including popular beaches for swimming, are contaminated with unsafe levels of fecal bacteria.

  5. Marine botany - Wikipedia

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    Marine botany is the study of flowering vascular plant species and marine algae that live in shallow seawater of the open ocean and the littoral zone, along shorelines of the intertidal zone, coastal wetlands, and low-salinity brackish water of estuaries.

  6. Marine coastal ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Worldwide there is about 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi) of coastline. Coastal habitats extend to the margins of the continental shelves, occupying about 7 percent of the ocean surface area.

  7. Infections with Vibrio vulnificus, bacteria found in raw ...

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    Many oysters are harvested from the coastal waters where the bacteria lives, per the CDC. Because oysters are filter feeders, they suck up the ocean water along with any Vibrio or other germs in ...

  8. Marine food web - Wikipedia

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    Coastal waters include the waters in estuaries and over continental shelves. They occupy about 8 per cent of the total ocean area [ 77 ] and account for about half of all the ocean productivity. The key nutrients determining eutrophication are nitrogen in coastal waters and phosphorus in lakes.

  9. Seagrass meadow - Wikipedia

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    They keep coastal waters healthy by absorbing bacteria and nutrients, and slow the speed of climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide into the sediment of the ocean floor. Seagrasses evolved from marine algae which colonized land and became land plants , and then returned to the ocean about 100 million years ago.