Food Web The Great Barrier Reef Ecosystem Now we have a simple food chain With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs Covered with long Cnidarians have a simple body plan waves carry nutrients from deeper water to the fore-reef, providing additional food resources for coral reef communities Hermatypic corals are the
Food Web The Coral Reef There! A perfectly simple food chain And we can see food chains happening underwater too Algae is eaten by small fish, small fish are eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish are eaten by sea lions What is a food chain? All living things including humans, animals and plants need energy to live But, where do they get their energy from? The answer is easy - all living things get their energy Teeming with life, a healthy coral reef is one of the noisiest to be the loudest animal in the ocean Reef sounds are beneficial to some marine animals, which use them to locate reefs – a source He captured the Great Barrier Reef during its latest—and most devastating—mass die-off, and documented how coral off the coast of Belize had partially recovered thanks to a no-fishing zone
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