Marine12 - Marine Habitats: Marine Ecosystems

A transect is a line across a habitat or part of a habitat. It can be as simple as a string or rope placed in a line on the ground. The number of organisms of each species along a transect can be observed and recorded at regular intervals.

Resource Fact Sheets : Roebuck Bay, Montgomery Reef, Ord River, Buccaneer Archipelago

Australia State of the Environment

Marine ecosystems are aquatic environments with high levels of dissolved salt. These include the open ocean, the deep-sea ocean, and coastal marine ecosystems, each of which have different physical and biological characteristics.