Sentences with phrase «affecting marine food chains»

Huge dams are affecting water cycle and bio-regions, pursseine trawlers are affecting marine food chains, both are destroying livelihood of people based on community control of resources.

The pollution produced by carbon dioxide increases the acidity of the oceans and affects the marine food chain.

As carbon dioxide is acidic, the surface waters of the oceans could become more acidic than ever before in five million years, reducing the capacity of shell - forming species to form shells and affecting the marine food chain.

This ocean acidification makes water more corrosive, reducing the capacity of marine organisms with shells or skeletons made of calcium carbonate (such as corals, krill, oysters, clams, and crabs) to survive, grow, and reproduce, which in turn will affect the marine food chain.7

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Now a team of researchers from MIT, the University of Alabama, and elsewhere has found that such increased ocean acidification will dramatically affect global populations of phytoplankton — microorganisms on the ocean surface that make up the base of the marine food chain.

Bridlington, Whitby, and other English coastal towns have long depended on the North Sea fishery for food and income.2 But global warming is affecting plankton and changing the marine food chain, compounding the pressures of overfishing.3 The resulting disruption of the ecosystem could damage the fishing industry and hurt North Sea coastal communities from the United Kingdom to Scandinavia.

In the North Sea, global warming is affecting plankton and the marine food chain, compounding the pressures of overfishing.3 Future warming is also expected to exert a significant impact on the marine ecosystem, creating further uncertainty for the fishing industry.7, 8,15

Scientists think that increased acidity could affect the entire marine food chain, from microscopic forms of phytoplankton to fish and whales.

Not only does this increasing acidity threaten the ocean food chain by hampering the formation of shells and corals, it could also affect the communication of marine mammals by changing the way sound travels through the seawater.