Sentences with phrase «microscopic ocean plants»

Saharan sand carries nitrogen, phosphorus and iron — delicious and essential treats for phytoplankton, which are microscopic ocean plants.

Experiments show that microscopic ocean plants and animals — the base of the food chain — will be impacted

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Ajit Subramaniam is a Columbia University professor who tracks microscopic plant life in the ocean.

The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

A long - standing puzzle in ocean photosynthesis was why phytoplankton failed to grow fast in parts of the Pacific Ocean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling wocean photosynthesis was why phytoplankton failed to grow fast in parts of the Pacific Ocean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling wOcean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling water.

Cores taken from under the open ocean are often stained green from microscopic plants called diatoms that settle to the seafloor after dying, but this core contained none.

For example, a lack of iron limits the growth of microscopic plants in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and elsewhere, a fact that prompted marine biologist John Martin to famously muse: «Give me half a tanker of iron, and I'll give you the next ice age.»

In many parts of the ocean the productivity of phytoplankton — microscopic plants at the base of the marine food chain — is limited by the availability of dissolved iron.

It concentrates on the ocean's microscopic phytoplankton, describing how these tiny green plants supply half the planet's oxygen and form an essential part of the sea's food chains.

These giants of the ocean swim with open mouth to absorb the nutritious soup made up from microscopic water plants, plankton, egg fish and even tiny fish.

The rate of accumulation depends on how much CO2 mankind emits and how much of this excess CO2 is absorbed by plants and soil or is transported down into the ocean depths by plankton (microscopic plants and animals).

Then, by analysing the sediments for chemical fossils made by certain microscopic plants that live in sea ice and the surrounding oceans, Knies and his co-workers were able to fingerprint the environmental conditions as they changed through time.

The first place that carbon moves from the atmosphere into the ocean is at its sun - warmed surface, where microscopic floating plants called phytoplankton consume carbon dioxide for energy (just like grass and trees).