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Aquatic Microbiology

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Marine Habitats

The marine environment supplies many kinds of habitats that support marine life.

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Planktonic Communities

Plankton (singular plankter) are any organisms that live in the water column and are incapable of swimming against a current.

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Planktonic Food Webs

Plankton communities are divided into broad categories of producer, consumer, and recycler groups.

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Ocean Floor

Ocean floor extremophile chemosynthetic microbes provide energy and carbon to the other organisms in these environments.

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Cold-Seep Ecosystems

A cold seep is an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane, and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs.

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The Deep Sea and Barophilism

A piezophile (also called a barophile) is an organism which thrives at high pressures, such as deep sea bacteria or archaea.

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Sea Coral and Sea Anemone Zooxanthellae

Zooxanthellae refers to a variety of species that form symbiotic relationships with other marine organisms, particularly coral.

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Sponge Communities

Sponge reefs serve an important ecological function as habitat, breeding and nursery areas for fish and invertebrates.

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Freshwater Environments

Fresh water is naturally occurring water on Earth which has low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.

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