Sentences with phrase «algal life»

The researchers found that the types of organic compounds found in microbial and algal life — long chain hydrocarbon - dominated matter - were destroyed by the pressures of impact.

Polymerized hydrocarbon «chemo - fossils» found in the gold ores... [probably] were originally part of a rich bacterial and algal life in the Witwatersrand basin.

Not exact matches

A supplement called life «sDHA (TM) is a sustainable and vegetarian source of algal DHA omega 3.

Certain harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have the potential to produce dangerous toxins that can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people, harm aquatic life, and interfere with lake recreation activities.

On watery worlds that lack days and nights because one face always points toward their star, tides may help life emerge — and algal blooms might be the giveaway

While the extra nitrogen is a rich resource for algae in the Gulf, driving the growth of massive algal blooms, excess nitrogen has a more deadly impact on other marine life.

«However, in general, the Algal Biomass Organization firmly believes life cycle assessments are critical to the development of the industry, given the need to accurately assess and quantify the environmental impact of algae - derived energy,» she said.

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.

For years scientists have known that nitrogen and phosphorus, which commonly enter freshwater lakes in chemical fertilizers, play a role in eutrophication — the process by which algal blooms, turbidity, and oxygen deficiencies turn a lake into a dead zone, largely devoid of animal life.

The problem: Overflow and sprayed waste can find their way into local wetlands, where fecal matter triggers algal blooms that choke out other aquatic life.

«Considering both the algal concentrations in lakes near the highways, not just road salt application rates, will ensure that aquatic life is not damaged by winter road maintenance,» notes Yan.

The outcome: algal blooms so massive that ecosystems turn into dead zones, resource - poor realms inhospitable to other life.

Excess nutrients are a primary cause of algal blooms, which have a number of impacts, including impairing drinking water quality, robbing aquatic life of needed oxygen and closing beaches to swimming.

In nature, nitrogen and phosphate pollution harms aquatic life by spurring the growth of algal blooms.

Algal blooms deplete oxygen in lakes, produce toxins, and end up killing aquatic life in the lake.

More primitive life subscribed to two or three basic lifestyles: algal mat, spineless worm, or bacterial blob.

In the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the cells of five different groups: salamander cells with algae, salamander cells without algae, the algal cells living in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratory.

They live in all oceans of the world from the equator to polar latitudes, and occupy a wide range of habitats from coral and rocky reefs, seagrass and algal beds, to sand and mud soft substrates.

Florida red tide is a harmful algal bloom produced by the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis that causes respiratory impairment in humans and marine life, and is responsible for shellfish poisoning.

Researchers have captured the first 3D video of a living algal embryo turning itself inside out, from a sphere to a mushroom shape and back again.

Namacalathus lived a benthic existence with its stalk attached to the sea floor or possibly to algal mats growing on the reef surface

SEE ALSO Algal Blooms, Harmful; Algal Blooms in the Ocean; Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere; El NiÑo and La NiÑA; Food from the Sea; Life in Extreme Water Environments; Human Health and the Ocean; Human Health and Water; Ocean Biogeochemistry; Ocean Currents; Plankton; Pollution by Invasive Species; Pollution of the Ocean by Sewage, Nutrients, AND Chemicals.

Algal blooms can reduce the ability of fish and other aquatic life to find food and can cause entire populations to leave an area or even die.

The Effects: Environment Algal blooms can reduce the ability of fish and other aquatic life to find food and can cause entire populations to leave an area or even die.

All these creatures lived and died over the years and their skeletons were broken up by wave action and algal boring, just as is happening today.

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Recently, laboratory experiments with live foraminifera have demonstrated that the photosynthetic activity of algal symbionts and the carbonate ion concentration -LRB-[CO32 --RSB--RRB- of seawater also affect shell d18O values.

Harmful algal blooms don't just wreak havoc by causing oxygen - starved dead zones, they have the potential to be toxic to humans, land animals and aquatic life.

Dead zones form when excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorous wash into waterways and spur algal blooms, depleting the water of oxygen and killing fish, shrimp, and other marine life.

Plus, they and life have been around for at least 2.4 or so billion years based on the most recent algal mats paper published earlier this week.

«Dead zones and harmful algal blooms can kill fish, impact shellfish and other marine life, and put our coastal economy at risk.

It kills aquatic life and creates algal blooms that can suffocate fisheries.

Threats to marine biodiversity in the U.S. are the same as those for most of the world: overexploitation of living resources; reduced water quality; coastal development; shipping; invasive species; rising temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide in the surface ocean, and other changes that may be consequences of global change, including shifting currents; increased number and size of hypoxic or anoxic areas; and increased number and duration of harmful algal blooms.