Sentences with phrase «algal communities»

Studies have demonstrated that areas cleaned with the Suckers experience a revival in their native algal communities and renewed coral growth.

Sheath R, Havas M, Hellebust J, & Hutchinson T. (1982) Effects of long - term natural acidification on the algal communities of tundra ponds at the Smoking Hills, N.W.T., Canada.

In addition to Panama, similar algal communities has been found in the Red Sea and off the coast of South Africa.

Some of these exciting results are published today in the journal Biochemical Society Transactions along with a series of other scientific developments related to algal communities in the Broads National Park; one of the UK's most popular and environmentally important network of waterways.

Together with UK colleagues they found a high biodiversity within the bacteria, depending on the locations they lived, whereas the biodiversity of the snow algal communities was rather uniform.

Not exact matches

At 11 a.m., Toxics Targeting Inc. holds a news conference releasing photos of algal blooms threatening the sources of public drinking water for residents of Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester, Ithaca and other communities across New York, state Capitol, third floor, adjoining to the LCA Press Room, Albany.

Tropical storms also can temporarily remove excessive macroalgae, which can restrict coral recruitment and growth, although post-hurricane damage to coral cover and stirring of nutrients may lead to shifts to algal - dominated communities.

At the start of the experiment in late September, the conditions were truly oligotrophic: «The nutrient concentrations were hardly above the detection limit, and the plankton community was dominated by tiny algal cells and microzooplankton species.

Along gradients of normal pH (8.1 — 8.2) to lowered pH (mean 7.8 — 7.9, minimum 7.4 — 7.5), typical rocky shore communities with abundant calcareous organisms shifted to communities lacking scleractinian corals with significant reductions in sea urchin and coralline algal abundance.

Effects of algal and terrestrial carbon on methane production rates and methanogen community structure in a temperate lake sediment: Methanogen response to trophic change

The community structure of a site in the NE Pacific shifted from a mussel to an algal - barnacle dominated community between 2000 and 2008, as the pH declined rapidly.

Biofilms also influence the structure and functioning of marine benthic communities by promoting or inhibiting the settlement of algal and invertebrate propagules [45 — 47].

As Christine McEntee, president of the American Geophysical Union, explained here, NASA's Earth programs have been used for things like: confronting the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, monitoring dangerous algal blooms that threaten coastal communities, assessing air quality and water availability, predicting floods, responding to earthquakes, and tracking tornadoes and hurricanes.