Foods Coral

31Aug/11Off

Foods Coral

What is the climate of a marine biome? (Marine biome, like where coral reefs are located.)?

Im doing a report on Coral reefs and I need to find out some background information. Some other question I have are: How is this biome like and unlike other biomes, What is an example of a food web in this biome, How do humans influence or affect this biome, and Why is this biome endangered? Thank you so Much!!!

I'm pretty sure they are a little warmer than the open ocean; here is a link to a site about the marine biome and its sub biomes, it should be a good sarting point. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/marine.php
Also, for food webs there are so many animals in corals reefs its amazing: here are some animals common in reefs, maybe you can look them up to see what they eat and make your own food web becasue I can't find any good ones by googleing: algae and plankton are at the bottom, shrimp eat algae, sardines, lots of other small fish and some eels eat shrimp, some whales and some rays eat plankton, some fish eat parasites off of sharks and rays that swim by, sharks, octopus, dolphins, and diving seabirds make up the top. Coral and starfish I think eat algae but I'm not 100% sure.
Humans overfish coral reefs--they just get a huge net and rake everything up for shrimp in some places, they get 500 lbs of fish and only take a few lbs of shrimp and dump all the dead fish back into the water. There are other reasons why coral reefs are endangered, I'm sure you can look them up.