Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The air fern (Sertularia argentea) is a dead and dried colony of hydrozoans, a species of marine animal in the family Sertulariidae related to corals and jellyfish.. Air ferns are typically dyed green and sold as a curiosity, as a decorative "indoor plant"; the same skeletons of former colonies of hydroids are sold in their natural dried state as the sea fir and Neptune plant as underwater ...
Honckenya peploides, the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada), [2] is the only species in the genus Honckenya of the plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed , sea pimpernal , sea-beach sandwort , [ 3 ] and sea purslane . [ 4 ]
In saltwater bodies, organic material breaks down and forms a marine snow. This example of detritus commonly consists of organic materials such as dead phytoplankton and zooplankton, the outer walls of diatoms and coccolithophores, dead skin and scales of fish, and fecal pellets. This material will slowly sink to the seafloor, where it makes up ...
Marine life, sea life or ocean life is the collective ecological communities that encompass all aquatic animals, plants, algae, fungi, protists, single-celled microorganisms and associated viruses living in the saline water of marine habitats, either the sea water of marginal seas and oceans, or the brackish water of coastal wetlands, lagoons ...
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. It is a branch of marine biology and botany.
Swimming organisms find areas by the edge of a continental shelf a good habitat, but only while upwellings bring nutrient rich water to the surface. Shellfish find habitat on sandy beaches, but storms, tides and currents mean their habitat continually reinvents itself. The presence of seawater is common to all marine habitats. Beyond that many ...
Codium fragile, known commonly as green sea fingers, dead man's fingers, felty fingers, [1] forked felt-alga, stag seaweed, [2] sponge seaweed, [3] green sponge, [4] green fleece, [5] sea staghorn, [6] and oyster thief, [7] is a species of seaweed in the family Codiaceae.
Seagrass die-offs create a positive feedback loop in which the mortality events cause more death as higher oxygen demands are created when dead plant material decomposes. [76] Because hypoxia increases the invasion of sulfides in seagrass, this negatively affects seagrass through photosynthesis, metabolism and growth. Generally, seagrass is ...