Sentences with phrase «as algae»

There are four major types of seaweed and they are all known as algae.

It's good to see that people are making efforts to try and help the world even with things as simple as algae.

Advocates for the Great Lakes are meeting in Washington, D.C., this week to push for continued funding of cleanup programs and discuss water quality issues such as algae blooms and oil transportation.

Bacteria as well as algae can also be used to transport or displace matter in fluidic environments.

The key reason that everybody cares about iron is because it limits the growth of phytoplankton such as algae in maybe a fifth of the ocean.

As the algae die and decompose they become food for bacteria, which consume so much dissolved oxygen that resident fish and marine crustaceans can not survive.

Bioreactors in the Walls We should place sealed containers of algae - based, photo - bioreactors into the sides of buildings to produce biofuels and sequester carbon; as the algae grows it sucks up CO2 from the surrounding air which can then be stored.

This plant needs nitrogen and phosphorus, just as the algae do.

Once they differentiated into muscle cells, they were given simple nutrient sources, such as algae extracts.

-- Trek out to the remote Canos Cristales River high in the mountains of Colombia and catch the annual show as the algae changes to bright, rainbow colors for a brief two or three week show in autumn.

As algae on the water surface also eventually die, bacteria will break them down.

As an algae biologist I was initially struck by the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.

Mosaics in the corridor floors will illustrate various images from science — such as the alga Spyrogyra — and the microscope lobby will serve as a «symbol of a moment in scientific history when a single discovery combined biology, chemistry, and physics,» she says.

In seawater, aerosols transfer moisture, salt, and even toxins such as algae from the ocean to the air, Deike said.

In his vision, billions of robots on the ocean floor tend tanks of compressed air that power turbines, the Southwest is known affectionately as algae country, and energy traders make their fortunes speculating on the price of chicken - manure gas.

Water is a major concern, as is the use of nitrogen fertilizers to stimulate growth of cyanobacteria and microalgae — two microorganisms typically lumped together as algae biofuels.

They make some cool (and unique) products as the Algae Facial Cleanser, and I also love the colour of it too.

A critter - packed night dive at Sapokreng was one of the highlights on this trip, where we found many species of cephalopods such as algae octopus, pygmy squid, and coconut octopus.

Dinoflagellates are often classified as algae.

They identified places where local factors such as algae blooms exacerbate acidification, and mapped coastal communities most vulnerable to declining harvests.

Whale shark diets vary both seasonally and geographically, but they are thought to feed mainly on zooplankton as well as algae, small fishes, fish eggs, and cephalopods.

bloom (in microbiology) The rapid and largely uncontrolled growth of a species, such as algae in waterways enriched with nutrients.

As the algae died and settled, they created a hypoxic area.

After all, surface mats of duckweed can block out sunlight just as the algae can.

«Fecal input may adversely affect the condition of the reservoir, bringing about undesirable changes such as algae bloom.»

Instead, sloths outsmart predators by relying on camouflage, such as algae that grows on their fur.

Whole protein sources (such as algae, insects and Hinoman's new vegetable solution) could pick up the slack of slowing and unsustainable meat and seafood growth.

They're making beers with offbeat ingredients such as algae, fungus - infected grapes, bhut jolokia peppers, and even bull testicles.

use natural ingredients like avocado, clay, honey, essential oils, fruits, healing herbs, natural pigments and superfoods such as algae, aloe vera or green tea.

«Our results show that despite a wave of massive and virtually instantaneous extinctions among the plankton, some types of photosynthesising organisms, such as algae and bacteria, were living in the aftermath of the asteroid strike.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

But it is fair to say that as algae and other tiny ocean species solve new survival problems, they may force us to do the same.

These fundamental discoveries were made in non-human organisms such as the algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and the zebrafish, Danio rerio.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

The rates of new introductions of other organisms such as algae, molluscs or insects increased steeply after 1950.

Bromophenols occur naturally in many marine organisms, such as algae, bryozoa and sandworms.

Venter and other scientists are experimenting with photosynthetic microbes such as algae and cyanobacteria (sometimes referred to as blue - green algae).

That means the sea cucumber isn't limited to absorbing dissolved nutrients via its anus and respiratory tree — it can take in food such as algae, too.

Fish and plants are literally choked out as algae, which thrive in the nutrient - rich waters, use up all the available oxygen.

Much attention has been given to migration of vermin on board ships, and the transport of larger organisms such as algae and jellyfish in ballast water.

In addition, the researchers added several substances, which could potentially hinder molecular analysis such as algae, humic substances, and inorganic suspended particles to the water, which are also found in natural ecosystems.

View in article Furthermore, other ice surface organisms, such as algae (Yallop et al., 2012; Lutz et al., 2014), will likely significantly increase the overall biologically - induced melt potential calculated for cryoconite cyanobacteria in this study.

Most of the time, the Pfiesteria dinoflagellate is a nontoxic predator that feeds on small organisms such as algae, bacteria, and small animals.