Sentences with phrase «affect marine food webs»
Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) causes pronounced shifts in marine carbonate chemistry and a decrease in seawater pH. Increasing evidence indicates that these changes — summarized by the term ocean acidification (OA)-- can significantly affect marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles.
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Scientists in B.C. and the U.S. have several questions they are pursuing - the pyrosome's feeding behavior, the environmental variables the affect their numbers and the impact on the marine food web.
«Our future work will focus on the ways in which smaller organisms that feed on marine snow may be affected by the toxicity, and how that in turn can affect the larger food web.»
2016 Mar 180 (3): 889 - 901, doi: 10.1007 / s00442 -015-3489-x BIOACID in brief: Under the umbrella of BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), 10 institutions examine how marine ecosystems react to ocean acidification, how this affects the food web and the exchange of material and energy in the ocean and how the changes influence the socio - economic sector.
Both marine and freshwater species are affected by acidifying water in ways that disrupt the entire food web, scientists warn
About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.
«This loss of top predators could hold serious implications for the entire marine ecosystem, greatly affecting food webs throughout this region,» said the lead author of the study, Francesco Ferretti, a doctoral student in marine biology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.
Both marine and freshwater species are affected by acidifying water in ways that disrupt the entire food web, scientists warn