HOME: This page gives information about the marine biome as a whole and Biscayne National Park. "Home" also includes FAQ's and an informational video about Biscayne National Park.
FACTORS: "Factors" provides a world into the underwater life of Biscayne National Park. This page includes information about biotic factors, abiotic factors, density-dependent factors, and density-independent factors and how all of these factors contribute to the ecosystem.
ORGANISMS: This page show information about primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. A food web and pyramid are also shown.
PREDATION: "Predation" gives insight to predator-prey relationships between nurse sharks and slipper lobsters, great barracuda and stripped anchovy, queen parrotfish and boulder star coral, and flying gurnard with ciliated false squilla within the ecosystem of Biscayne National Park. The role of these predator-prey relationships in population control can also be found on this page. A video of a parrotfish eating coral is something that can be checked out on this page too.
ENDANGERED SPECIES: This page features the endangered Green Sea Turtle. On this page you can find information about this turtle and reasons for why it is endangered. Also available is a video of baby green sea turtles hatching and information on how they are being helped.
SUCCESSION: "Succession" focuses on primary and secondary sucession underwater. On this page you can find what each sucession involves and what this succession looks like/ would look like in Biscayne National Park.
HUMAN IMPACT: This page shows the negative impact of humans: oil pollution, overfishing, development of coastal mangroves, and much more. The biogeochemical cycle of carbon dioxide in water is described and informtion is provided about how it is effecting ocean waters like Biscayne National Park.
FUTURE AND CONCLUSIONS: "Future and conclusions" predicts what will happen to the efforts of lion fish eradication and preservation of green sea turtles in Biscayne National Park. This page also reflects on the factors affecting this ecosystem and gives insight to websites that can give a tourist good information on where to stay and the most important tourist sights to see above and below the water.
RESOURCES: On this page the resources that made this website possible are listed.
*While navegating through this website citations to pictures are located either underneath the photograph if surrounded by text or on the photograph if on a title heading. Citations for book resources are located in red. Citations for videos have a caption that says this is video citation __. Citations for websites are after each sentence in parantheses.*