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WHAT ARE ECOSYSTEMS?
Dr. V. N. Nayak
Professor of Marine Biology (Retd)
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An ECOSYSTEM is an interacting system
of plant, animals, and humans and the
surrounding environment. An ecosystem
contains living and non-living things that
contribute to the functioning of other
organisms. An ecosystem is NOT just a
collection of organisms. It is a system of
interactions and interrelationships.
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ENVIRONMENT
The living and nonliving
things that surround a
living thing make up its
environment.
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Parts of an Ecosystem
• An ecosystem is made up of all the living
and nonliving things in an environment.
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All members of a
community live in the same
ecosystem but they do not all
live in the same part of the
ecosystem.
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Marine Ecosystems
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Saltwater Ecosystems• Saltwater ecosystems are again in
the water, but unlike freshwater
ecosystems, saltwater ecosystems
have very salty water.
• They also make up the vast
majority of the Earth’s
ecosystems.
• They are the world’s largest
ecosystems.
• Some examples of saltwater
ecosystems are oceans and coral
reefs.
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Types of Marine Ecosystems
• Estuaries
• Salt marshes
• Rocky shores
• Sandy Shores
• Coral reef
• Mangrove swamp
• Barrier islands
• Sand dunes
• Wetlands
• Backwaters
• Mud banks
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Estuaries
An area in which fresh water from a river mixes with salt water from the ocean; a transition area from the land to the ocean. Other names: bay, sound, lagoon, harbor, or bayou.
River bringing freshwater to the sea
The Ocean
Area where fresh and salt water mix
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Characteristics of Estuaries
• Water is brackish : a mixture of freshwater
and saltwater
• There is a gradual increase in salinity as you
go from the river (0-5ppt) to the middle of
the estuary (5-25ppt), to the ocean (>25
ppt).
(ppt = parts per thousand, a unit for salinity)
• Pollutants are absorbed in estuaries.
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Estuary plants
Plants must be adapted to salty habitat
cordgrass
eelgrass
glasswort – a succulent
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Estuary animalsHuge variety including…
Blue crab, Stone crab, Fiddler crab,
Horseshoe crab, Mosquito, Lobster,
Flounder, Stripped bass, Crane,
Flamingo, Sea gull, Ibis, Manatee, otters,
and many more.
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Threats in
Estuary
-Aquaculture
-Sand & Shell mining
-Encroachments
-Fire wood
-Fishery
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Shell mining in estuary
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Salt
Marshes
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Salt marshes are coastal wetlands rich in marinelife. They are sometimes called tidal marshes,because they occur in the zone between lowand high tides. Salt marsh plants cannot growwhere waves are strong, but they thrive alonglow-energy coasts.
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Rocky shores
Also called rocky intertidal zone – many places to live in this habitat, means high biodiversity
Organisms must be adapted to wave action, changing tide levels
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Rocky ShoresAt low tides, there are often tide pools left
behind where you can see starfish,
anemones, crabs, octopus
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Rock pool
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Sandy beaches• Beach is a unique
environment occupied byanimals that haveadapted to the constantmotion of the sand,gravel or shell.
• Many important birds,reptiles, and otheranimals nest and breedon the berm and openbeach, as well as feedand rest there
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Beaches provide a unique habitatfor burrowing species such asmole crabs, coquina clams, razorclams, and others.
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Coral reefs• One of the most productive ecosystems in the
world.
• Largest living thing on Earth
• Covers less than 1% of the Earth’s Surface
• Needs sunlight to
grow
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Coral Reefs
There are many different kinds of corals:
Soft coralsHard corals
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Threats to
Coral Reefs
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Coral-eating Snails
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Crown of Thorns Starfish
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Mangrove Swamps
Coastal wetlands
located in tropical
and subtropical
zones; characterized
by salt-tolerant trees
and shrubs, such as
mangrove trees
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A mangrove shelter
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Mangroove destruction and deforestation
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Barrier Islands
Narrow islands made of sand that provide a buffer for the mainland from the sea
Constantly shifting, especially with storms
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Barrier islands are
constantly changing.
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Coastal Sand dunesCoastal sand dune (CSD) habitats serve as an
ecological niche between terrestrial and marine
realms, and form important nature conservation
sites.
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SAND DUNE VEGETATION
DUNE PLANTATION
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Sand dune vegetation
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The Ramsar
Convention on
Wetlands
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The Convention on Wetlands, signed in
Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental
treaty which provides the framework for
national action and international cooperation
for the conservation and wise use of wetlands
and their resources. There are presently 162
Contracting Parties to the Convention, with
2,040 wetland sites, totaling 193 million
hectares, designated for inclusion in the
Ramsar List of Wetlands of International
Importance.
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What is the RamsarConvention on Wetlands?
• Oldest of the global environmental conventions
• the only global convention focusing attention
on an ecosystem (wetlands)
• covers very wide range of wetlands - from coral
reefs to mountains
• Ramsar, Iran - where 18 countries signed the
Convention on 2 February 1971
• Celebrated annually on World Wetlands Day -
2 February
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Ramsar Convention:
Mission Statement
“The conservation and wise use of
wetlands through local, regional and
national actions and international
cooperation as a contribution towards
achieving sustainable development
throughout the world.”
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Ramsar covers• Natural and human-made wetlands
• inland/freshwater:
–marshes, rivers, lakes, reservoirs etc.
• coastal/marine
– lagoons, estuaries, mangroves, coral reefs,
seagrass beds etc.
• above ground and underground
–karst and caves
• but not deep oceans
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Estuaries & Salt Marshes
Mud flats
• Most animals are
infauna and are usually
feeding on detritus
–Deposit feeders also
oxygenate the
sediment with their
burrows
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Mudflats and marsh creeks
serve as spawning
grounds for many species
of fish.
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Birds have also evolved to take advantage of abundant food sources on mudflats.
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