Penguins are a huge part of the food webs in the Antarctic region. They prey on ice krill, silver fish, and squid, for some species of penguins like the Southern Rockhopper species. Penguins have a direct and indirect influence on the marine life environment. A study was done by Jing Huang, Linguang Sun, Wen Huang, Xinming Wang, and Yuhong Wang, they found that aquatic algae was directly benefited by the penguins being present, they concluded that the algae grows from the penguin droppings. While aquatic moss was not influence by the penguins being in the same environment but they were influence mainly by the water body transparency and somewhat nutrient availability. For Adelie and Emperor penguins the ice free or low ice concentration area are important for them to be able to get food easily. Shaye Wolf wrote in her article that, “Our greenhouse gas emissions are also causing the oceans to become acidic, which threatens the entire ocean food web from plankton to penguins.” (8). The ocean environment is slowly becoming acidic and not suitable for certain species and that is going to cause major fallout to many species, like tiny plankton but also
Penguins are a huge part of the food webs in the Antarctic region. They prey on ice krill, silver fish, and squid, for some species of penguins like the Southern Rockhopper species. Penguins have a direct and indirect influence on the marine life environment. A study was done by Jing Huang, Linguang Sun, Wen Huang, Xinming Wang, and Yuhong Wang, they found that aquatic algae was directly benefited by the penguins being present, they concluded that the algae grows from the penguin droppings. While aquatic moss was not influence by the penguins being in the same environment but they were influence mainly by the water body transparency and somewhat nutrient availability. For Adelie and Emperor penguins the ice free or low ice concentration area are important for them to be able to get food easily. Shaye Wolf wrote in her article that, “Our greenhouse gas emissions are also causing the oceans to become acidic, which threatens the entire ocean food web from plankton to penguins.” (8). The ocean environment is slowly becoming acidic and not suitable for certain species and that is going to cause major fallout to many species, like tiny plankton but also