They contribute a huge amount of food to important seafood species like flatfish, skates, really just about any demersal or benthic larval fish (fish living on or near the seabed). All that is only a tiny fraction of their job recycling nutrients between the sea floor and the water column. They constantly rework the sea bottom and stabilise sediments with their tubes. Some worms tubes are dense enough to form reefs which can shelter many other animals and even offer protection from hurricanes.
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