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Ocean Habitats
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Ocean Habitats
Kelp Forests
Intertidal Zone
These animals feed on the holdfasts that keep kelp anchored to the bottom of the ocean and algae that are abundant in kelp forests. Sea urchins will often completely remove kelp plants by eating through their holdfasts. Other invertebrates found in kelp forests are sea stars, anemones, crabs, and jellyfish
High Tide Zone: Also called the Upper Mid-littoral Zone and the high intertidal zone. This area is flooded only during high tide. Organisms in this area include anemones, barnacles, brittle stars, chitons, crabs, green algae, isopods, limpets, mussels, sea stars, snails, whelks and some marine vegetation.
Estuaries
Fish, shellfish, and migratory birds are just a few of the animals that can live in an estuary. The Chesapeake Bay, as one example, includes several different habitats. There are oyster reefs where oysters, mud crabs, and small fish may be found.
Salt Marshes
The marsh is crawling with hundreds of kinds of invertebrates. Fiddler crabs, hermit crabs and stone crabs join snails, mussels and worms in finding food and shelter in the salt marsh. Fish and shrimp come into salt marshes looking for food or for a place to lay their eggs.
Mangrove Forest
Who lives in the mangrove forest? We have already seen that the forests in Belize are home to the Red, Black, and White Mangroves. If you would visit a mangrove canopy, however, you would see more than just the mangrove trees and shrubs. The mangrove forests create habitats for many more plants and animals that are all part of the mangrove ecosystem like Reptiles such as Mangrove Anole ,the Birds such as
Grackle Mangrove Yellow Warbler and the Wood Storks
Coral Reefs
The coral provides shelter for many animals in this complex habitat, including sponges, nudibranchs, fish, jellyfish, anemones, sea stars, crustaceans, turtles, sea snakes, snails, and mollusks.