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The Amazon River carries all the rainwater that lands in the Amazon rainforest, covering some 2.1 million square miles, into the ocean. And with it, it carries vital nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen and silicon.
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Where the Amazon Meets the Ocean

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Pink crustose algae covers the surface of a rock.
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Microbes Help Corals Pick a Home and Settle Down

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Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
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Not Just Another Fuzzy Face

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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11
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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

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Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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Seagrass and Seagrass Beds

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Ocean Primary Production

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Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.
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Seaside Lichens

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two mangrove trees in the crashing waves
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Mangroves

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Kelps are large, brown algae that grow along coasts around the world, especially in cooler regions.
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What is a Sea Vegetable?

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Up Close and Personal with a Mangrove Root

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Close-up photograph of translucent coral polyps, showing the symbiotic algae living inside.
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Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching

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