Sentences with phrase «affects food chains»

Those that can up and move are the lucky ones — for now — but each relocation affects food chains and habitats, often in ways we can't yet predict.

Some emit toxins that can paralyze or kill such shellfish as clams, mussels, and oysters and can adversely affect the food chain all the way up to humans.

«These changes are harbingers of processes that will likely affect the food chain and reverberate throughout the ecosystem.

Off topic, i have been reading about how world energy prices are affecting the food chain... I keep getting the sense that due to the dependency of imported food as well as population increase, we may be creating an «emergency», with malnutrituion and starvation in the world.

Climate change is now altering life in the ocean by affecting the food chains of the animals inside of it.

Primary production will change in the surface layers according to sun exposure, water temperature, major stratification of water masses, for example, and this will affect the food chain down to the deep seafloor, which will be subject to differences in quantity, quality, and timing of organic matter input.

The equipment used is designed to monitor how climate change influences the migratory patterns of animals and plants where a sudden or gradual climatory change affects the food chain, upsets ecological harmony and fractures the fragile balance of the eco-system.

Not exact matches

This requires the heroic assumption that it's not the absolute level of your income that affects your lifespan, but rather the relative distance between your income and those at the top of the food chain.

The new standards will affect 95 percent of the chain's core food items.

Krebs's report said PSCU contacted various banks after it noticed a breach that affected a «large fast food restaurant chain.»

Anyone can be affected, despite their level of success or their place on the food chain.

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 low - FODMAP diet focuses on eliminating foods high in a collection of short - chain carbohydrates (sugars and fibers) that adversely affect digestion for those with sensitive guts.

Gastronomy can be understood as another link in the food chain, and as a change factor that offers a different perspective to the conventional outlook, and seeks solutions to social problems which, after all, affect all of us.»

If one part of the food chain is affected, so is the rest of the chain.

The wage raise doesn't affect all fast - food employees, only those who work for chain restaurants with at least 30 locations across the country.

Meanwhile, in the Hudson Valley, Putnam County has a ban on plastic foam for government facilities and Ulster County's polystyrene ban affects food service establishments, including chain restaurants, as well as any county managed concessions or sponsored event.

As soon as one species is depleted it can affect the whole food chain with potentially catastrophic results.»

As these elements are increasingly depleted everywhere to the north, phytoplankton populations decline and scarcity reverberates up through the food chain, ultimately affecting the fish that humans catch and eat.

A small phytoplankton replaced the normal summer phytoplankton, profoundly affecting the rest of the food chain, according to NOAA scientists.

New research from Lund University in Sweden investigates how nanosized plastic particles affect aquatic animals in different parts of the food chain.

Buchanan agrees there are alternative solutions by building food chain infrastructure and trade, but he adds: «If we are to address the problems affecting our future well - being on the planet, we have to be far more visionary.»

This change reverberates down the food chain to affect where seaweed, a chief competitor to corals, grow on the reef.

Fischbeck, Michelle Tom, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, and Chris Hendrickson, the Hamerschlag University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, studied the food supply chain to determine how the obesity epidemic in the U.S. is affecting the environment.

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.

Other recent work has shown that Perú's gold mining has contributed to widespread mercury pollution affecting the entire food chain, including the food ingested by people throughout the region.

The resulting changes in pH, Ωcarb, and pCO2 affect calcifying organisms at the base of the food chain, creating effects that propagate through higher trophic levels [1], [3].

Agrochemicals applied in the paddy pollute these water - bodies and hence affect the entire food chain, thereby causing a decline in the overall fish, shrimp and frog supply — a resource freely available to the poor.

Modern fish farming practices often raise fish near the top of the food chain (affecting populations of fish that eat or are eaten by these species) and contain thousands of fish in tiny pens (similar to commercial chicken or cow operations).

«Our mission is to encourage self - discovery by providing educational and information resources that empower them with knowledge about traditional fats, nutritional density, and the provenance of the food they purchase and how those purchasing choices affect the entire supply chain.

Endocrine - disrupting industrial toxins in the aquatic food chain may affect genital development of boys

The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of ileal fat emulsions with differing degrees of saturation of fatty acid chains on 1) satiety and food intake and 2) secretion of peptides known to affect satiety (CCK and PYY).

Teaching points that are covered in the topic are listed below: Understand that it is important to be able to grow plants well because they provide food and other items for us To know that all food chains begin with a green plant To understand the function of the parts of a plant To understand that plants need leaves in order to grow well To plan an appropriate investigation To make careful observations and measurements of plants growing To use simple apparatus to measure the height of plants in standard measures To use results to draw conclusions and provide explanations To know that water is transported through the stem to other parts of the plant To know that that plants need light for healthy growth To know that plants need water, but not unlimited water, for healthy growth To know that temperature can affect the growth of plants To ask questions about the growth of plants To plan a fair test To write a clear conclusion

There are 43 slides covering types of habitats, environmental factors affecting habitats, adaptations, producers and consumers, prey and predators, food chains, food webs and pyramids of numbers.

ACSSU112 — Interactions between organisms can be described in terms of food chains and food webs; human activity can affect these interactions ACSIS125 — Collaboratively and individually plan and conduct a range of investigation types, including fieldwork and experiments, ensuring safety and ethical guidelines are followed

Vegetarians in favor of killing whales are not affecting the action taking place since they do not provide economic support in the food chain.

When they go, the rest of the food chain is also affected.

However, as we move up the food chain, I think you can be sure that ocean species will be more and more affected by the lower oceanic pH due to their inability to adapt within the timeframe of the change.

A recent TV news item said little Antarctic critters I think called «pteropods» at the bottom of the food chain didn't like ice melt and that could seriously affect fish harvests.

«These microplastics absorb pollutants, are eaten by organisms, and enter the food chain, potentially affecting human health.»

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

Any impact on the populations of tiny crustaceans will affect other creatures higher up the food chain — cod, seals and polar bears — which need fat sources in their diet.

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

Because global warming affects plankton at the base of the saltwater food chain, it also affects fish that eat plankton, disrupting the overall ecosystem.

WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a «fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation» not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.

Any impacts of such changes on lower levels of the food chain may be expected to affect higher level species, such as large fish and all whales.

There is some evidence for electromagnetic fields emanating from undersea cables affecting the movements of some fish species and associated food chain.

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

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.