Sentences with phrase «as plankton»

As plankton, they form the base of the food web.

Between August and September whalesharks are commonly spotted as a plankton boom lures them into the area.

Plankton blooms, particularly in rainy season can attract larger creatures such as plankton - feeding whales and manta rays.

Baleen whales completely lack teeth and filter small prey such as plankton, worms, and baitfish from the water using rows of baleen arranged in their mouths like sieves.

As plankton rise towards the surface, snorkelers and divers have a great viewing opportunity.

But nobody is aware of the interference of an evil player known as Plankton (Doug Lawrence).

Microbes such as plankton also have other benefits.

The organism can be found as plankton in shallow water and damp soil.

The report found that ocean warming is affecting a multitude of ocean processes, including breeding and migration patterns of ocean species such as plankton, whales and fish.

But he says there is also a biological component: «When you mix like that, you bring more nutrients» to organisms living in the area, he says, such as plankton and corals.

Not exact matches

If we had to choose between the survival of whales as a species and that of plankton, we would rightly choose the plankton.

Organic bivalve shellfish (mussels, clams, oysters) are fed by natural plankton and algae in tidal zones, so this industry is relatively easy in clean oceans, such as those near the south coast of Australia, where there are already certified operators for mussels and oysters.

As in the wild, farmed shellfish (oysters, mussels, abalone) feed on plankton and / or algae and do not require fish meal in their diets.

At night, as the mysterious guests sliced through the gentle swells, phosphorescent plankton would gather around their fins, lighting a path for the ship through the water.

These particles known as oceanic microplastics are now so prolific in the oceans that they outweigh plankton.

At this size it is small enough to be ingested by every single organism in the world's oceans — animals as small as krill and salps (plankton feeders) right up to the great Blue Whale.

«These microscopic pieces never fully disintegrate and in certain areas outcompete plankton as a non-nutrient food source in our world's oceans.»

In fact, when this particular brood had hatched about a week earlier, they were all omnivores, feeding on plankton and the suspended organic matter referred to in higher - class journals as «detritus.»

The venom gland «is not a trivial structure, [but] a big bulge» on the lower jaw, says Fry, who compares previous ignorance of the Komodo dragon's venomous capabilities as akin to «missing the teeth on great white sharks and saying they are plankton eaters».

«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.

Instead, as suggested by the trickle - up theory of salmon restoration, the plankton tends to get eaten by tiny animals, which are then eaten by larger animals until, ultimately, all or most of the CO2 sucked up by the tiny plants during their photosynthetic life spans finds its way back to the atmosphere in relatively short order.

Whales are broadly classed as predators, but their food ranges from microscopic plankton to very large fish.

Satellite images as well as maps of chlorophyll abundance appear to show that the iron did indeed fuel a plankton bloom in August.

A storm in Africa's Sahara Desert brought a sandy fertilizer to the Atlantic Ocean on April 8, triggering plankton blooms that show up as blue - green swirls in this photo from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite.

Iron can fuel plankton blooms and influence how the ocean responds to climate change, while the lead images show the impact of past pollution on the ocean and continuing contamination in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.

The balls of mucus, known as «marine mucilage,» are enormous, gelatinous masses of organic material emitted by stressed - out plankton.

They typically show up on ingredient labels as «plankton extract» or «micrococcus lysate.»

SCINTILLATING SWIRLS In a satellite image taken February 3, plankton blooms appear as green whorls in the Arabian Sea.

But when a giant shelf collapses — as Larsen A and B did in 1995 and 2002 — solar - powered plankton production ramps up, and scientists think it could jump - start a complex food web of diverse marine life.

AS THE world's fisheries ministers promised tough action to conserve the oceans» fast - diminishing fish stocks last week, researchers were providing still more evidence of a crisis that threatens everything from plankton to porpoises.

For example, they may help researchers understand the full — and perhaps changing — potential for the plankton ecosystem to act as a sink to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

Tripati and her team used a technique known as clumped isotope thermometry, which examines the calcium carbonate shells of marine plankton for subtle differences in the amounts of carbon - 13 and oxygen - 18 they contain.

Today's ocean models typically take an «either / or» approach, grouping plankton as either photosynthesizers or consumers of prey.

The algae and its marine snow aggregates can serve as a major food source for other forms of marine life like plankton - eating fish and shellfish.

Typical ocean models that incorporate plankton often group them in 10 general size classes, each of which fall into a «two - guild» structure, as either photosynthesizers, or consumers of prey.

These more substantial organisms, compared to smaller and lighter plankton, were more capable of sinking to the ocean floor, as carbon - containing detritus.

The problem is that there are very few data to work into models, as it's extremely difficult to observe trophic strategies at the microscopic plankton scale.

The plankton incorporate different forms of boron into their shells, depending on the seawater's acidity, so each shell serves as a chemical record of the ocean's pH during its occupant's brief life.

It didn't take long for her to confirm that the flashing was not, as most people assumed, a form of bioluminescence — a chemical reaction inside animals like plankton that produces light similar to that of a glow stick.

Warm - water species, such as leaner plankton species often associated with subtropical waters, have lingered in these more - northern zones.

Without it, the food chain suffered: Plankton went missing, as did the little fish that ate them.

It includes vertebrates as well as invertebrates, from plankton, to clams, to coral reef fishes.

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, they present evidence that malformed fossil remains of marine plankton from the late Silurian (415 million years ago) contain highly elevated concentrations of heavy metals, such as iron, lead, and arsenic.

The animals are known for their colossal mouths, which are nearly five - feet in diameter and siphon plankton, small fish, and larvae as they swim through the ocean.

«We think of plankton as the tiny alphabet soup of the ocean, floating around passively while larger organisms eat it,» says biologist Gregory Gavelis, who lead the study while a researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Satellites can assess traits such as tree - canopy height and marine plankton productivity.

Those three papers explore the global ocean microbiome and plankton interaction networks, as well as how plankton communities change across a key ocean circulation choke point off South Africa.

Cold - water fish such as salmon are particularly rich in omega - 3's because they feed on plankton that manufacture the fatty acids, but the most sophisticated animal that can make its own omega - 3's is the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

The single - cell marine plankton, a predatory microbe, bears a dark purple spot known as an ocelloid.

They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.