Sentences with phrase «bodied marine organism»
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Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).
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Marine mollusks can embed photonic structures into their curved shells without compromising shell strength; deep sea sponges evolved fiber optic cables to direct light to symbiotically living organisms; and brittlestars cover their skeletons with lenses to focus light into the body to «see» at night.
The work adds to a growing body of science pointing to large changes, with some types of marine organisms and ecosystems seemingly able to adjust and even thrive, while others ail.
The potential for marine organisms to adapt to increasing CO2 and the broader implications for ocean ecosystems are not well known; an emerging body of evidence suggests that the impact of rising CO2 on marine biota will be more varied than previously thought, with both ecological winners and losers.
Ocean acidification is more about depletion of carbonate that marine organisms use to build shells and other body parts than about pH.
For the purpose of our meta - analysis, we sampled articles from the body of literature that explores the effects of climate change on marine organisms.
«Since the publication of two reports in 2005 — 2006 [1], [2], the drive to forecast the effects of anthropogenic ocean acidification (OA) on marine ecosystems and their resident calcifying marine organisms has resulted in a growing body of research.
Richard is particularly interested in understanding how the marine biosphere and key organism traits, such as body size, responded to the major climatic and environmental changes of the past, particularly those associated with the key extinction and warming episodes of the Phanerozoic.