Sentences with phrase «community of the sediment»

While the microbial community of the water was only significantly affected when 5.0 g of feces was added, the microbial community of the sediment was impacted by smaller amounts of feces.

Geobacteraceae are important members of mercury - methylating microbial communities of sediments impacted by waste water releases — Andrea G. Bravo — The ISME Journal

Not exact matches

The situation of the bottom sediment and the benthic communities was similar to the past five years.

The microbial communities in these sediments include aggregates of methane - oxidizing archaea called ANME (for ANaerobic MEthanotrophs) and sulfate - reducing bacteria (SRB) that live together symbiotically and help to remove some 80 percent of the methane released from ocean sediments.

They «alter the community composition of near shore systems, change sediment characteristics, and facilitate the introduction of invasive species,» says the study.

Microbial communities in marine sediments control ecological processes, affecting the availability of nutrients and the chemistry of the soil.

A sediment sample from a knoll at a depth of 1170 metres identified a remarkable cold - water coral community of both living and fossil cold - water coral species, gorgonian sea whips, bamboo corals, molluscs and stalked barnacles.

Hundreds of studies on bottom trawl impacts, including those on soft sediment habitats, have shown that trawling can remove or damage structure - forming organisms, alter the composition of communities living in the sea bed (infauna) and reduce their productivity.

«As our knowledge grew about the high levels of PCBs in the sediments and water, we began to question the air from this site,» explains Karen Vilandry, President of the community - based organization, Hands Across the River Coalition.

At threshold sedimentation rates of 1 millimeter per 1000 years, the low rates of microbial community metabolism in the North Pacific Gyre allow sediments to remain oxygenated tens of meters below the sea floor.

A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science - led research team analyzed the sediments of mesophotic coral reefs, deep reef communities living 30 - 150 meters below sea level, to understand how habitat diversity at these deeper depths may be recorded in the sedimentary record.

Microbial communities can subsist at depth in marine sediments without fresh supply of organic matter for millions of years.

The results suggest that for pumping, communities should still target the oldest aquifers, where sediments are no longer being deposited and most of the arsenic has leached out.

Effects of bottom - water hypoxia on sediment bacterial community composition in a seasonally hypoxic enclosed bay (Omura Bay, West Kyushu, Japan)-- FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Harnessing a Methane - Fueled, Sediment - Free Mixed Microbial Community for Utilization of Distributed Sources of Natural Gas — Jeffrey J. Marlow — Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Since Megan Mullis recently received one of four $ 30,000 grant from the International Ocean Discovery Program Schlanger fellowship for her collaborative research project titled, «Active microbial community survival in Mariana Forearc sediments.»

Quantitative Viral Community DNA Analysis Reveals the Dominance of Single - Stranded DNA Viruses in Offshore Upper Bathyal Sediment from Tohoku, Japan.

How are microbial communities assembled in the > 5,000 - y - old subsurface of marine sediment, and do they undergo adaptive evolution or accumulate mutations due to impaired DNA repair under such energy - limited conditions?

A comparative study revealed first insights into the diversity and metabolisms of the microbial communities in the sediments of Pacmanus and Desmos hydrothermal fields — Hai - liang Wang — PLoS One

0732917 McCormick, M. LARISSA: Impact of ice - shelf loss on geochemical profiles and microbial community composition in marine sediments of the Larsen A embayment, Antarctic Peninsula

Warmer water and increased sediment loads are harming lake trout, an important source of food for native communities.

Effects of nutrient loading on sediment bacterial and pathogen communities within seagrass meadows — Songlin Liu — Microbiology Open

In this study, we have used culture - independent shotgun metagenomics to investigate microbial communities in river sediments exposed to waste water from the production of antibiotics in India.

Effects of algal and terrestrial carbon on methane production rates and methanogen community structure in a temperate lake sediment: Methanogen response to trophic change

«GE's cleanup of the upper Hudson has left hundreds of acres of sediments contaminated with PCBs at levels that will continue the river's status as America's largest Superfund site — a designation that is based on both environmental and health threats and that impedes economic revitalization of Hudson River waterfronts and communities,» added Mr. Sullivan.

Warmer water and increased sediment loads are harming lake trout, an important source of food for native communities.

The only issue in respect to the Tiljander sediments is the obtuseness of the «community».

An individual 401 process is the state's opportunity to look at the pipeline in a holistic way and consider impacts such as erosion and sediment from tree clearing, impacts to drinking water resources, and impacts to karst geology that could harm the environment and health of communities across the region.

Impacts of ocean acidification and burrowing urchins on within - sediment pH profiles and subtidal nematode communities

Bioturbating shrimp alter the structure and diversity of bacterial communities in coastal marine sediments