Ocean surface ecosystem
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ocean-surface-ecosystem-224-208909
title:
Ocean surface ecosystem
text:
Organisms that live freely at the ocean surface, termed neuston, include keystone organisms like the golden seaweed Sargassum that makes up the Sargasso Sea, floating barnacles, marine snails, nudibranchs, and cnidarians. Many ecologically and economically important fish species live as or rely upon neuston. Species at the surface are not distributed uniformly; the ocean's surface provides habitat for unique neustonic communities and ecoregions found at only certain latitudes and only in specifi
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_surface_ecosystem
date created:
2021-12-06T08:58:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T12:07:12Z
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