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Trophic Structure »  What is Marine Ecology?  Marine Ecology is
the scientific study of marine-life habitat, populations, and
interactions among organisms and the surrounding environment
including their abiotic (non-living physical and chemical
factors that affect the ability of organisms to survive and
reproduce) and biotic factors (living things or the materials
that directly or indirectly affect an organism in its
environment).  Marine ecology is a subset of the study of marine
biology and includes observations at the biochemical, cellular,
individual, and community levels as well as the study of marine
ecosystems and the biosphere.  The study of marine ecology also
includes the influence of geology, geography, meteorology,
pedology, chemistry, and physics on marine environments. The
impact of human activity such as medical research, development,
agriculture, fisheries, and forestry is also studied under
marine ecology. In some ways, marine e