Sentences with phrase «altering marine food webs»

In addition to altering marine food webs, iron fertilization could produce greenhouse gases more potent than carbon dioxide, such as nitrous oxide and methane, or block sunlight needed by deep coral reefs.

With climate change, these waters will warm and acidify, potentially altering the marine food web.

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MEDDLESOME MERCURY Increased runoff into Earth's oceans could increase methylmercury concentrations in marine ecosystems by altering the food web, new laboratory tests show.

Thus, past and future increases in atmospheric nitrogen deposition have the potential to alter the base of the marine food web; and, in the long term, the structure of the ecosystem.

«While the changing seascape has dramatically altered and increased the diversity and number of small creatures at the base of the marine food web, we still don't know how these changes in the ecosystem will propagate through the entire chain.

«This can help us determine mechanisms that influence species composition in planktonic communities exposed to red tides, and suggests that these chemical cues could alter large - scale ecosystem phenomena, such as the funneling of material and energy through marine food webs.»

The general goal of these projects was to improve our understanding of how the response of arctic marine ecosystems to climate warming will alter food web structure and ecosystem services provided to Northerners.