Fish fertilize corals and seagrasses but not the way you think 
By Angela Nicoletti PA Source: flu 9/28/2021
Angela Nicoletti
Fish are like underwater gardeners, fertilizing the coral reefs, kelp forests and seagrasses where they reside. Their fertilizer of choice — their own pee.

But, fish communities are facing many changes. Warming oceans mean tropical fish can venture into areas they couldn’t before when the waters were cooler. And then there are the human impacts, including fishing and habitat destruction.

Will Wied, a Ph.D. student in Justin Campbell’s lab in the FIU Institute of Environment, wants to get to the bottom of how these different factors are altering the all-important nutrient balance. And he’s going straight to the No. 1 source of these nutrients — fish waste.
 

“I’m not just looking at how the fish may be eating a lot more, but also how their excretion is then recycled. Are they no longer hanging out in the seagrass beds, so now the seagrasses don’t have a source of nutrients?” Wied said. “It’s about picking at different pieces of that overall question of how community structure dictates the quality and quantity of nutrients.”

Fish waste — excreted through the gills, in addition to the most obvious source — has a lot of beneficial and life-sustaining nutrients, including nitrogen and phosphorous. If fish numbers dwindle and the steady supply of urine slows, these ecosystems suffer.

 
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