Food Chain In The Atlantic Ocean

Then I thought about how I could show the changes throughout time and how to highlight how urgent of a matter climate protection is.

Food chain in the atlantic ocean. In my Ocean Awareness contest piece I drew an Atlantic sea creature food chain. Diatoms small fish large fish The graphs show how over a year. I got my inspiration from my art teacher mentioning species diversity which I automatically related to the food chain.

Quickly find that inspire student learning. Since the early 1980s ocean phytoplankton concentrations that drive the marine food chain have declined substantially in many areas of open water in Northern oceans according to a comparison of. In the ocean there are the producers which consist of algae duckweed euglena etc.

The concentration of nitrate and phosphate minerals alters. While the ocean seems vast and unending it is in fact finite. This shows that biomagnification in some cases depends on body size and not trophic position.

Food webs describe who eats whom in an ecological community. These are producers which make their own food and dont eat any other animals. These consist of copepods water fleaas midge larva and black fly larva.

The food chain begins with the tiniest microorganisms who are the major producers of food in the ocean and are in turn consumed by bigger lives which are eventually preyed by the largest marine lives such as whales and sharks. As the climate continues to change we are learning more about those limits. Ecologists aim to learn more about sand lance a crucial forage fish in oceanic food chains A slender little fish called the sand lance plays a big role as a quintessential forage fish for puffins terns and other seabirds humpback whales and other marine mammals and even bigger fish such as Atlantic sturgeon cod and bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Maine and northwest Atlantic Ocean.

After the producers are the herbivore which eat the poducers. Learn more about food chains in this article. Marine biome is primarily found in five oceans like the pacific the atlantic the arctic the indian.