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An Aquatic Ecosystem is one where aquatic environments are involved.
from:An aquatic ecosystem is where there is more salt water than fresh water involved in the balance of the landscape. Other aquatic ecosystems are fresh water lakes, rivers and estuaries. The aquatic ecosystem includes all life forms and land forms that might occur in each location.
Aquatic ecosystem topography can include tidal zones, coral reefs, river mouths, estuaries and reefs where salt water is predominant. The life forms that live in the aquatic ecosystem will be adapted to life in a salty environment.
Even tropical aquatic ecosystems will have similar conditions as underlying criteria for classification. The levels of salt water will effect the life forms able to exist in the symbiotic relationships needed between aquatic ecosystem and sustainable life.
In studies of an aquatic ecosystem, the predatory nature of some forms of life will mark the food chain of the particular area. In the aquatic ecosystem the food chain begins with the largest predatory mammals and fish and will continue down through the strata of life forms to the smallest poly and coral life. Seals, whales and dolphins exist in an aquatic ecosystem. They make the top of the food chain with fish such as sharks and large predators like turtles and sting rays.
Further down the food chain in an aquatic ecosystem are the smaller fish and crustaceans. It is the way that these creatures exist among the plant life and coral formations that make up the unique relationships in the aquatic ecosystem. Without plant life or plankton the larger species could not exist. Without the tides, the currents and the sand bars or rock reefs the plants could not exist. Without the movement of schools of fish, jelly fish, rays, eels and turtles, the levels of life would not remain in balance.
The impact of human activity on an aquatic ecosystem may not at first be discernable, but study would give an idea of how man has changed the balance of life in any aquatic ecosystem. Not only through the act of fishing, does human activity impact on the aquatic ecosystem, but activities such as fertilization of crops can affect the delicate balance in the aquatic environment. Toxins washing into the tidal zones, plastics floating through an aquatic ecosystem, long lines, waste material and oil spills can all damage a fragile aquatic ecosystem.
Taking care of an aquatic ecosystem, whether it is in tropical waters or in the Arctic or Antarctic oceans will mean the survival of thousands of individual species. There is no aquatic ecosystem that exists without being impacted by what happens in other parts of the globe. The aquatic ecosystem is vital to the health and welfare of all life forms that pass through it.
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Amazon Rainnforest Ecosystem News
PepsiCo and Wal-Mart Attempt to Value the Amazon - BusinessWeek
PepsiCo and Wal-Mart Attempt to Value the Amazon BusinessWeek By Avery Fellow on May 23, 2012 PepsiCo and Wal-mart have entered into a partnership with the US Agency for International Development and several nonprofit groups to protect Brazil's Amazon rain forest and other ecosystems. The companies will conduct ... |
Brazil President Rousseff vetoes parts of forest law - BBC News
 The Guardian | Brazil President Rousseff vetoes parts of forest law BBC News Environmentalists oppose the law, which the say will lead to further destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The bill was approved by the Brazilian Congress a month ago. Environmentalists had urged President Rousseff to veto the entire bill. Brazil's leader vetoes portions of new Amazon rainforest law |
It's Not So Lonely at the Top: Ecosystems Thrive High in the Sky - New York Times
It's Not So Lonely at the Top: Ecosystems Thrive High in the Sky New York Times Looming over the northern edge of the Amazon rain forest are some of the most remarkable mountains on earth. Known as tepuis, or tabletop mountains, they are typically ringed by sheer cliffs that rise thousands of feet from the surrounding lowland ... |
In Antigua, Fishing Brings Both Income and Ecological Destruction - Inter Press Service
 Inter Press Service | In Antigua, Fishing Brings Both Income and Ecological Destruction Inter Press Service But he laments the fact that he can no longer see the coral that he recalls were somewhat of an underwater jungle when he was a young boy, akin to what you'd see in the Amazon rain forest. "Nobody ever thought - I didn't think - the corals would be ... |
Chevron's Worst Year Ever, Episode 2: Ecuador - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
 San Francisco Chronicle (blog) | Chevron's Worst Year Ever, Episode 2: Ecuador San Francisco Chronicle (blog) I am preparing to travel to the United States to speak, in person, about all of the harm that Texaco (now Chevron) left in our Amazon rainforest. Texaco contaminated our forest, leaving many people sick with cancer; the rivers poisoned; and the soil as ... |