Biotic factors in the open ocean
- Mammals: Include seals, sea lions, dolphins, whales, and sea otters.
Seals and seal lions:
-Marine birds- come in three main varieties offshore, coastal mainland and Nearshore
Offshore birds include the ashy storm-petrel, black footed albatross, common loon,
pigeon guillemot, short tailed albatross, and sooty shearwater.
(sooty shearwater)
Coastal mainland marine birds include belted kingfisher brandt’s cormorant, brown
pelican, aspian’s tern, common murre, double-crested cormorant, marbled godwit,
marbled murrelet, northern pintail, snowy egret, snowy plover, and surf scoter
(brown pelican)
Nearshore marine birds inclood the black oystercatcher, assin’s auklet, heermann’s gull,
osprey, red phalarope, tufted puffin, and western gull
There are many types of fish in the open ocean the two main types are sharks&rays and
bony fish
White shark
Ocean sunfish
The most abundant and diverse group are invertibrates
The different types are cnidarians, echinoderms, mollusks, arthropods, porifera , and
anemones
Sunburst anemone
the different types of plants and algae in the open ocean are brown red green flowering and
phytoplankton
Diatom
The only type of reptile in this environment is the green sea turtle
Source: http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/onms/park/Parks/categories.aspx?refID=5&pID=11
One thing I found interesting about our environment is the wide variety of species that live in
it.