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The marine environment includes the nutrient-rich coastal waters, relatively nutrient-poor open oceanic waters, coral reef atolls, metal-rich hydrothermal vent fluids with temperatures of 200–350°C, cold-seeps, estuaries, mangrove swamps, intertidal beaches and rocky shores. Oceans are home to some of themost diverse and unique life forms. This article is an attempt to introduce some of the fundamentals of biologicaloceanography andmarine biologyto describe life in the sea.
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Chandralata Raghukumar is an emeritus scientist at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. After obtaining a PhD in plant pathology, she worked for 5 years on fungal diseases of marine algae in the Institute for Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. At NIO she worked on algal and coral pathology and marine fungal biotechnology. Her major interests are industrially important enzymes from marine fungi and physiology of deep-sea fungi.
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Raghukumar, C. Life in the oceanic realms. Reson 12, 24–42 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-007-0058-6
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