Small animals help balance the ecology of the Caribbean Sea

Small marine animals such as sea urchins or parrot fish are helping to ensure ecological balance in coastal Caribean waters .

Echinometra Viridis hedgehog.(Source: WetWebMedia).

This is the conclusion made in scientific research conducted in the waters of Bocas del Toro, part of the Atlantic Ocean in Panama.

According to reporters in Latin America, speaking to reporters, two marine biologists Andrew Altieri and Catie Kuempel of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute said that with herbivores, Echinometra Viridis porcupines and Scarus Iseri striped parrots have can help reduce the risk of seaweed invasion of coral reefs in the process of decline.

According to two scientists, a strange disease that caused a massive death for long-spotted black sea urchins in this region of the Caribbean and led to the excessive growth of seaweed harmful to the reefs. Coral.

Scientists say they were surprised to find that in coral reefs that are in the process of degradation, dead corals are not overwhelmed by seaweed in the case of small marine animals. This accounts for 95% of the biomass of herbivores.