Sentences with phrase «down on the algae»

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Touching your time machine down on Earth at a random point in the planet's history, roughly nine times out of 10 you would only find single - celled life or algae and would risk suffocation in the oxygen - starved open air.

Then in 1997 and 1998, they and their colleagues sampled copepods in the Adriatic Sea during diatom blooms in winter, when the copepods feast primarily on diatoms, and during the summer, when diatom numbers are down and copepods eat a more mixed diet that includes other algae.

Nearly all of the thousands of different chemical substances produced by people, animals, plants, fungi, algae or microorganisms on the ground or in the oceans react quickly with OH and break down in this process.

In theory, such zooplankton (ZO - plank - tin)-- tiny creatures that eat plant - like algae — could chow down on these toxic algae, reducing the size of a bloom.

Scientists have generally believed that more algae — more specifically, the type known as phytoplankton — would be good for the climate, since they thrive on CO2 while alive, then carry the carbon they've absorbed down to the sea bottom when they die.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even more photosynthesis by more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).

As algae on the water surface also eventually die, bacteria will break them down.

Among these soil dwellers are bacteria, fungi, and algae, which feed on plant and animal remains breaking them down into humus, the organic component of soil, in the process.

my doctor is down on vegan diets, and doesn't believe that i will be able to raise my Omega3's with algae supplements and diet alone but, i am determined to try!

The body of evidence supports that — for those of us without the time and space to run down wild game, raise free - range livestock genetically unaltered since the dawn of modernity on those animals» evolved diets, or fish in unpolluted waters — a plant - based diet with proper B12 and algae - derived long - chain fatty acid supplementation is our best bet for meeting our evolved dietary needs in today's world, where there is limited farmland, dwindling wildlife, and 6.5 billion people to feed.

The fish will show themselves better if the light is not overly intense, and you will also grow less algae and cut down on tank maintenance.

If the idea is to cut down on parasites, bacteria and / or algae, UV filtration is a must.