marine environment
Saltwater living space
The marine environment encompasses the ocean and its associated ecosystems—from coastal waters and estuaries to the deep sea floor.
It includes the physical conditions (salinity, temperature, currents) and biological communities (coral reefs, kelp forests, open water) that characterize saltwater habitats.
Oil spills devastate the marine environment.
The term appears frequently in environmental policy and conservation contexts.
- zooplanktonDrifting aquatic microorganisms
- food chainEcological feeding hierarchy
- coral reefsCalcium carbonate marine structures
- fishing industryCommercial marine harvest sector
- fish speciesClassification of aquatic vertebrates
shipping routes · salinity · whale song · seabirds · bioluminescence · climate change impacts · plastic pollution · hydrothermal vents · mangroves · tide pool · ocean acidification · estuaries · offshore drilling · tides · deep · ocean currents · coral · kelp forest
- environmentsocean, forest, desert, mountain, island
- seamanshipseamanship, steering, anchoring, navigation, chartwork
- Arctic affairsGreenland, Svalbard, Northwest Passage, Northern Sea Route, sovereignty claims
- saline watersbrine, seawater, salt lake, Great Salt Lake, Dead Sea
- maritime lawadmiralty, law of the sea, salvage rights, towage, demurrage
marine environmentdry land
Earth above water
desert environment · grassland · forest ecosystem · tundra · arid environment
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