ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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It provides shallow water for easy access to oxygen at the water’s surface.
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It provides cold water to keep the manatees cool.
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It provides heavy currents for fast swimming.
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It provides several rocks for the manatees to hide from prey that they want toeat.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The picture below shows manatees, an herbaceous aquatic mammal, traveling along the saltwater estuary of Biscayne Bay in Florida. How does this saltwater estuary support populations of manatee? It provides shallow water for easy access to oxygen at the water’s surface.
Detailed explanation-2: -Coral reefs are believed by many to have the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem on the planet-even more than a tropical rainforest. Occupying less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral reefs are home to more than 25% of all marine life. Why is that important?
Detailed explanation-3: -Greater biodiversity in ecosystems, species, and individuals leads to greater stability. For example, species with high genetic diversity and many populations that are adapted to a wide variety of conditions are more likely to be able to weather disturbances, disease, and climate change.
Detailed explanation-4: -Biodiversity loss can have significant direct human health impacts if ecosystem services are no longer adequate to meet social needs. Indirectly, changes in ecosystem services affect livelihoods, income, local migration and, on occasion, may even cause or exacerbate political conflict.
Detailed explanation-5: -By Max Witynski. Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time. Gradually, these communities replace one another until a “climax community”-like a mature forest-is reached, or until a disturbance, like a fire, occurs.