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In general, oil spills can affect animals and plants in two ways: from the oil itself and from the response or cleanup operations. Understanding both types of impacts can help spill responders minimize overall impacts to ecological communities and help them to recover much more quickly. Spilled oil can harm living things because its chemical constituents are poisonous. This can affect organisms both from internal exposure to oil through ingestion or inhalation and from external exposure through skin and eye irritation. Oil can also smother some small species of fish or invertebrates and coat feathers and fur, reducing birds' and mammals' ability to maintain their body temperatures.Water pollution may disrupt photosynthesis in aquatic plants and thus affecting ecosystems that depend on these plants.Plants may be killed by too much sodium chloride (ordinary slat) in water.Plants may be killed by mud from construction sites as well as bits of wood and leaves, clay and other similar materials.