Sea Floor Community

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.

Sea floor community.

Fortunately the weather has been great and everyone aboard seems to be feeling fine and in good spirits. Observing the seafloor community march 22 2015 we steamed for a day to arrive at isla tortuga a small rugged and beautiful little island near the middle of the gulf. 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. The marine biome is made up of salt water regions and includes estuaries coral reefs shores and the open ocean.

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. All floors of the ocean are known as seabeds. The three main sources of ene.

Dead animals and feces. The seabed also known as the seafloor sea floor or ocean floor is the bottom of the ocean no matter how deep. 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. Because of the unique challenges it was long believed that little life existed in this hostile environment.