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How do plants respond to rising CO2 levels? To find out, plant physiologist Bert Drake monitors plants used in his CO2 study at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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CO2 Marsh Study

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As Dampier studied the plants he encountered in Australia, he wrote that they were “for the most part unlike any I had seen elsewhere.” In fact, nearly all the plants Dampier observed were entirely unknown to botanists at that time.
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More Australian Plants

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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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Fish Feeding in Seagrass

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A beautiful bromeliad blooms among the mud and roots of a mangrove swamp.
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Dancing Bulb

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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 Meadows as Food

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A landscape photo of a shoreline with tall grass-like plants lining the water's edge.
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Phragmites australis

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A screenshot from the video showing a volunteer talking about mangrove restoration.
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Miami Connects Art and Mangrove Restoration

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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A Diatom Helix

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In some reefs, small fishes such as this broad-barred goby protect corals by eating invading seaweeds.
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Coral Goby Cleans Coral

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This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
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Shrimp hides 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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Bringing Back Tampa Bay’s Seagrass

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scientist Drew-Baker reads a book by her microscope
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Mother of Nori

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