Sentences with phrase «brackish waters»

As they grow and mature, the fish move downriver into the most brackish waters of the lower Hudson.

The vaquita, a porpoise living in brackish waters where the Colorado River empties into the Gulf of California, is critically endangered, biologists say, depleted by fishing nets and the disruptions in the great river's flow in the 20th century from dam construction.

The tidal river winds lazily through the wine region — its brackish waters the perfect playground for all kinds of birds and the occasional otter and seal.

With emerald green, brackish waters surrounded by an impressive limestone karst formation naturally sculpted through the years by the weather, Barracuda Lake offers not only a splendid place to visit, but also one of the most original dive sites in the region.

The Violet Goby, sometimes called the Dragonfish is a beautiful, eel - like fish that lives in brackish waters.

Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

2018-04-07 13:49 Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

A. bridgei is the last common ancestor of modern jawed fishes and supposedly lived in quite shallow brackish waters.

Like the ancestors of modern terrestrial creatures, Qingmendous dwelled in brackish waters of lagoons, bays and deltas — within spitting distance of land.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

Five species of invasive gobies populate wide areas of freshwater and brackish waters in Central Europe — the species that is most common to the region around Basel, Neogobius melanostomus, even figures among the 100 worst invaders in Europe.

Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us — and thus meets the truth about itself.

Some of the industry's largest players are also investing in high - tech water recycling systems to frack with grey or brackish water.

But until that lifestyle change comes about through a ridiculously difficult effort on their part to walk away from an addiction, you see brackish water.

Irrigation is from a shallow well that has a high sulfur smell to it suggesting it is filled with brackish water.

Pei Xu develops innovative treatment and desalination technologies for alternative water sources such as municipal wastewater, brackish water, desalination concentrate, oil - and gas - produced water and hydraulic fracturing flowback water.

The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water.

Using more pure water from offshore aquifers rather than ocean water has the potential to reduce desalination costs, the authors argue — with reverse osmosis, desalination costs for ocean water run between 53 cents and $ 1.50 per cubic meter, while the cost to process brackish water from offshore aquifers runs between 10 cents and $ 1.

Duncan has founddozens of varieties of the grass over the years, in mangrove swamps andlow - lying bogs; some can remain submerged under brackish water for aslong as a month.

The population exposed to fluctuating selective pressure in a spawning area with occasional brackish water intrusions tolerated higher salinities on average, and performed reasonably well over a range of different salinities.

These layers meet and mix in a lens of brackish water called the halocline.

When saltwater and freshwater mix together, the result is reactive brackish water that dissolves the calcium - and carbon - rich limestone walls, eroding the rock and enlarging a cave's passageways.

The disease lives in brackish water and is closely associated with rainfall linked to the ENSO, spreading through contaminated water and shellfish.

It grows in freshwater or brackish water.

«And again, given that Hoyo Negro pit was dry when Naia made her way to the bottom, the florets had to have grown between the time of her death and 10,000 years ago when the bottom of the pit became submerged by brackish water because of rising sea level.

So when more recent waves and tides brought in salty seawater from the ocean, the brackish water underneath the beaches became salty enough to release the cesium from the sand, and it was carried back into the ocean.

In any case, a new market analysis by Lux Research forecasts that the global desalinated water supply will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent during the next decade as Australia, Israel, Singapore, California and others build desalinization plants for seawater and inland brackish water as well as for water recycling.

The team filled the central chamber of their cell with brackish water containing 5 grams of sodium chloride per litre, as might be found in an estuary, and applied a voltage of 0.55 volts to the setup.

The study indicates the Eocene Arctic sand tiger shark, a member of the lamniform group of sharks that includes today's great white, thresher and mako sharks, was thriving in the brackish water of the western Arctic Ocean back then.

Unlike other freshwater turtles, these guys venture into brackish water for days at a time.

Huge, squiggly teeth protrude from his lower lip, and powerful, muscle - bound fins allow him to sluice through the brackish water of a prehistoric lagoon.

-- Heikki Peltonen, Finnish Environment Institute, MRC, Finland, Behavioural responses of brackish water fish on underwater noise — novel experimental approaches

Vibrio bacteria live in coastal bodies of salt water or brackish water; people can contract the bugs by swimming in contaminated water or even eating contaminated raw seafood, like oysters.

There are some 12 different species of Vibrio living in salt or brackish water that oysters might come into contact with.

Brackish Water Aquariums and Fish at - information about keeping and caring for Brackish Water Fish.

Surrounded by water, several thousand islands in the Greek Archipelago face the paradox of little or no fresh water of their own: wells produce brackish water or they produce salt water.

Rainwater collected on rooftops and in cisterns helps provide domestic water, but many people must drink and cook with brackish water.

The tank likely to draw the most attention will be a brackish water environment.

This is also true of soft - shelled turtles (Apalone ferox), which have easily bruised shells and require a somewhat different setup (shallower water and a fine sandy bottom), and diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin), a stunning beauty that requires brackish water rather than fresh to avoid shell fungus.

Santa Rosa Beach and much of this stretch of the Emerald Coast is known for its powder - white sand, and beautiful dunes lining the ocean creating brackish water inlets and coastal dune lakes — a rarity around the world.

Don't expect much from the bathrooms — cold brackish water showers and peeling paint feature in most.

These are primarily brackish water animals.

The young spend their juvenile stages in brackish water and the adults migrate into the marine environment.

Great Brak is called such because of the brackish water of the Brak Rivers - the lagoon mouth is divided into two sandy channels with a small island between them.

Chilka is the largest brackish water lake in Asia inhabited by innumerable species of birds.

As you descend through this layer of fresh / brackish water you will pass through the mixing zone or halocline into the salt water which instantly becomes crystal clear.

Red Mangrove: local name «mangle», Mayan name «tap - che»: Rhizophora mangle: Family Rhizophoraceae The red mangrove can tolerate normal marine sea water, hypersaline water (seawater concentrated by evaporation) or fresh to brackish water and is known as a facultative halophyte (it can live in saline water but is not limited to it).

Wading through the mud and brackish water in these newly - restored tidal lagoons, their goal was to tally every fish in their trawl.

While your kayak silently glides through the brackish water, a professional guide extols their fragile beauty.

A dry landing, then a walk to a brackish water lagoon frequented by stilts, pintail ducks, sandpipers, sanderlings and more.