Smithsonian researchers study the ocean and freshwater ecosystems around the world. Using collections, SCUBA, submersibles, and more we ask questions about marine biodiversity, coastal ecosystems, ...

By reducing the acidity of surrounding waters, seagrass ecosystems help protect animals with shells or external skeletons. In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses ...

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to warm, nutrient-poor breeding areas through their urine, placentas, skin, and ...

The amount and form of carbon present in different ecosystem pools — such as plants, animals, air ... that has been buried at the bottom of the ocean or a swamp, and converted by heat and ...

Ecology also provides information about the benefits of ecosystems and how we can use Earth ... study microbes living in the soil under your feet or animals and plants in a rain forest or the ocean.

In deep, dark ocean ecosystems, some bacteria use chemicals ... for example— to living things like plants and animals, and then back again to the environment. They’re like the ultimate ...

All organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other ... Learn how sampling is used to find out about animals and plants. Pyramids of number and biomass Pyramids of numbers and biomass are different ...

An ecosystem is a natural environment in which animals, plants and organisms work to support life. This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...