Sentences with phrase «aquatic food web»

That could spell trouble for the entire aquatic food web.

New research from UCI oceanographers projects that by the year 2300, the elimination of sea ice around Antarctica will cause increased phytoplankton growth, starving other ocean regions of the nutrients needed to feed the lowest level of aquatic food webs.

However, scientists know very little about how road salt affects aquatic food webs.

As little as we know about the effect of traditional road salts on aquatic food webs, we know almost nothing about the effects of these alternatives that are promoted as being safer for the environment.

Both air and adjacent stream temperatures were noted to be several degrees or more higher after industrial logging, to the point that habitable temperature bands for andromonous fish were compromised, and aquatic food webs altered.

«Loss of 350 miles of Great Plains streams causing changes in aquatic food web.»

As part of the Jefferson Project, Relyea's lab has undertaken a series of experiments into the effects of various road salts on diverse aspects of aquatic food webs, with some surprising results.

Those tiny floating life - forms produce up to 40 % of the world's oxygen and form the basis of the aquatic food web.

This provides a pulse of nutrients — carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus — to the aquatic food web as well as the nearby terrestrial system.

In lakes, elevated chloride levels have been shown to alter the composition of fish, invertebrates, and the plankton that form the base of the aquatic food web.

«Fish with tumours and diseases caused by toxins in water, birds with crossed bills and other deformities caused by eating contaminated fish, and reproductive failures in mammals feeding on the top predators of the aquatic food web all suggest that human health may be in jeopardy,» the report says.

We found that when artificial streams were exposed to amphetamine at a concentration similar to what we found in parts of the Gwynns Falls watershed, there were measurable and concerning effects to the base of the aquatic food web.»

At some sites, amphetamine concentrations are high enough to alter the base of the aquatic food web.

We tested the hypothesis that these statistics would be early - warning signals for an experimentally induced regime shift in an aquatic food web.

It is mainly the methylated form of mercury (methyl mercury) that accumulates in aquatic food webs.

In the new research on salt alternatives — the first study to ever compare the effects of road salt alternatives and additives on aquatic ecosystems — researchers outfitted 64 mesocosms with many of the important players in an aquatic food web including, algae, zooplankton, amphipods, isopods, and snails.

Potential routes of exposure include aerosolization, dermal contact, ingestion of water, and dietary exposure through the aquatic food web.