ECOLOGY
The aim of this document is to provide the learner with a basic
understanding of marine ecology.
The living world is built on complex relationships between plants, animals,
and the places they inhabit.
Ecology is the study of these relationships....
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ECOLOGY
The aim of this document is to provide the learner with a basic
understanding of marine ecology.
The living world is built on complex relationships between plants, animals,
and the places they inhabit.
Ecology is the study of these relationships.
It helps us
understand how living things depend on each other for survival.
ECOLOGY
The term “ecology” comes from the Greek words oikos, meaning “house”, and logos,
meaning “the study of”.
Southern Africa (stretching from northern Namibia to Southern Mozambique) has a
particularly rich marine fauna and flora – over 10 000 species or almost 15% of all the
coastal marine species known worldwide.
About 12% of these species are endemic,
occurring nowhere else
ECOSYSTEMS
An ecosystem is a system of organisms, which interact with one another and their
surrounding environment.
The coastal and marine environment has a fascinating variety of
ecosystems each functioning as a dynamic unit under the influence of a set of physical
factors su
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