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    <th width="85%" rowspan="2" align="left"><h1>Why Are Tide Pools Important?</h1></th>
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Tide&nbsp;pools are very diverse ecosystems with a large number of plant and animal species. Diversity in these habitats can be comparable to diversity in rain forests. </p>
<p>Each species plays a role in tide pool ecology, some as the base of the food chain with others as top carnivores. Energy produced in rocky intertidal habitats can also be exported to the open ocean or onto land when terrestrial predators eat tide pool animals.</p>
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