Sentences with phrase «diatom studies»

Based on pollen and diatom studies (Kauppila 2002), the MWP was a two - stage event.

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The researchers also studied variables related to other ocean plant groups, like diatoms, which build glass shells that carry carbon to the deep sea, sequestering it from the atmosphere.

When diatoms bloom, they can impede copepod reproduction and may even disrupt the marine food chain, the study suggests.

Ecologist Adrianna Ianora and neurobiologist Antonio Miralto of the Naples Zoological Station first noticed a diatom - related drop in copepod hatching rates in laboratory studies.

A new study shows that at least two diatom species make compounds that reduce hatching rates when eaten by tiny shrimplike animals called copepods.

One beneficiary of this young researcher exchange program was Matthew Julius, who studies the evolution of diatoms, a group of microscopic algae, now at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

For their study, the researchers from Jena and their colleagues from the University of Ghent, Belgium, observed and filmed Seminavis robusta diatoms under the microscope.

As part of the study, Bloom, now an assistant professor at Illinois State University, developed a mathematical model to reconstruct drought over thousands of years using diatoms.

Which lead me to this: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/18/156976147/can-adding-iron-to-oceans-slow-global-warming then to this study: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7407/full/nature11229.html Money shot (last line in abstract):» Thus, iron - fertilized diatom blooms may sequester carbon for timescales of centuries in ocean bottom water and for longer in the sediments.

Multi-centennial-scale changes in East Asian typhoon frequency during the mid-Holocene This study reconstructs a record of typhoon frequency over the Korean Peninsula during the mid-Holocene using mineral components and diatom assemblages in deposits of Lagoon Hyangho, located on the east coast of the peninsula.

In the final paper of this issue, Tatters et al. [66] study the competitiveness of natural diatom communities incubated under future environmental conditions for two weeks, after which the dominant species were isolated and then incubated again for over a year before recombining the now conditioned species to reconstruct the original community.