Sentences with phrase «cause plankton»

Adding iron to the ocean can cause a plankton bloom that will consume other nutrients like phosphate that could have been used later in a different place by other plankton.

We truck coal to the Sahara so we can generate a lot of electricity to run great big fans to blow dust from the Bodele Depression to cause Plankton blooms in the Atlantic to capture CO2.

Recently, seagulls in Washington state have started eating their own chicks, for example, because rising water temperatures have caused plankton, their main food source, to vanish.

Recently, seagulls in Washington State have started eating their own chicks, for example, because rising water temperatures have caused plankton, their main food source, to vanish.

Not exact matches

Plastic eventually breaks down into micro particles, which then make their way into plankton, and thus the entire seafood chain (including any fish you might eat)-- potentially causing immune system disorders, endocrine disruption, and developmental problems in children;

Plankton may absorb more of the CO2 causing climate change than previously thought, according to new research

But plankton blooms do cause dead zones.

But dictating the species composition of a plankton bloom and its aftermath remains beyond the ken of marine biology, causing one researcher involved in the successful 2004 effort, marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this stage.

Mussels have caused high mortality in native Unionid clams (though some clams seem able to coexist with zebra mussels), altered the makeup of populations living at the bottom of the waterways and reduced plankton communities.

Ryan's research focuses on algal blooms, the rapid and dense growths of plankton that can starve marine organisms of oxygen and cause hypothermia in seabirds.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

Less plankton means more light can penetrate, causing aquatic plants to grow unchecked and further clogging waterways.

Looking at strains of the plankton under varying CO2 levels, researchers found that while some plankton had difficulties forming their shells when the water was more acidic, others did not, causing researchers to speculate that the plankton might be able to use another form of calcium to substitute in shell making.

RE # 39 (sorry for being off - topic), there are still more threats to plankton from GW, according to a NATURE article just out («Decline of the marine ecosystem caused by a reduction in the Atlantic overturning circulation,» Schmittner, Vol 434 No 7033, Mar 31, p. 628): If the Atlantic ocean conveyor is disrupted due to freshwater entering, then the nutrients for plankton will not be churned up, perhaps reducing plankton by half.

All the plankton in the water can cause the visibility to seem a little low, but it is this that brings the mantas in.

In San Blas little squids and plankton are causing the bioluminescence.

You can see bio-luminescent plankton that cause a ethereal phosphorescence in the water.

At least one past global hot spell widely attributed to a natural spike in greenhouse gases, the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum 55.8 million years ago, appeared to cause a mass die - off of some marine plankton, but other forms thrived, as did mammals and other terrestrial species, specialists on that period say.

They can cause an animal to starve or stop eating, or can actually loop around the organ... So you could say a whale with a big rope isn't that different from plankton with a small fiber.»

But although plankton (in its original state) is a natural selfsustaining and rapid groing one - more - cell sea - organisms, an extreme amount of it will cause a babyboom amongst plankton - eating sealife like many whales.

Will the increased plankton cause sudden increases in whatever eats it, and then the dwindling larger predators be unable to contain that growth, resulting in later overpopulation and starvation?

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

This, of course, causes ocean acidification and ocean warming, which are progressing especially rapidly in the North Pacific and Arctic oceans and threatening the survival of many calcifying marine organisms, including cold - water corals (and the plankton they eat).

If plankton suddenly take off, won't they be using up oxygen that will therefore cause other species to die off?

Next obvious question: If the above question is true (and I am not saying that it is) why in the world would we be investing billions in alternative and questionable energy sources and energy uses when we should be spending billions in fixing the root cause of the plankton problem (stress the phrase «root cause»).

Obvious question: Is the excess CO2 problem caused by humans or the fact that plankton population is diminished (I understand that the plankton population may also be affected by human behavior).

Less algae and plankton causes reduction in the amount and size of fish.

In the wash, it all comes out the same: in the past quarter millennium, we have good cause to believe plankton levels have shifted dramatically and overall lower in ways CO2 rise must be a major suspect.

Up and down the coast, recent increases in sea temperature have caused plunging plankton density.

It's caused by excess growth in the water of a colorless plankton called «psuedo - nitzchia».

Like other plants, plankton uses the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide for photosynthesis; thus, theoretically, fertilization could have caused the ocean to take larger amounts of CO2 from the air, and entomb it in the ocean.