Sea Floor Community

A deep sea community is any community of organisms associated by a shared habitat in the deep sea.

Sea floor community.

The marine biome is made up of salt water regions and includes estuaries coral reefs shores and the open ocean. The three main sources of ene. The seabed also known as the seafloor sea floor or ocean floor is the bottom of the ocean no matter how deep. While it might seem that forms of life would be unable to survive at such great depths the ocean floor is inhabited by a significant number of species especially echinoderms such as sea urchins sea lilies sea cucumbers and starfish.

All floors of the ocean are known as seabeds. The abyssal plain areas like deep sea coral whale falls and brine pools polar regions such as the antarctic and arctic coral reef s the deep sea such as the community found in the abyssal water column hydrothermal vents kelp forest s mangrove s the open ocean rocky shores salt marsh es and mudflat s and sandy shores. Marine communities water covers more than 75 of the earth and 99 of that water is salt water. The ocean floor is also inhabited by crabs shrimp worms bottom feeding fish and bacteria.

Deep sea communities remain largely unexplored due to the technological and logistical challenges and expense involved in visiting this remote biome. The mariana trench in the pacific ocean is the deepest known trench reaching a depth of 10 911 m below sea level at its deepest point. Because of the unique challenges it was long believed that little life existed in this hostile environment. Since the 19th century however research has demonstrated that significant biodiversity exists in the deep sea.