Sentences with phrase «early life history stages»

Selina Ward studies the early life history stages of corals and the responses of reproduction and recruitment to environmental stresses such as temperature change, ocean acidification, elevated nutrients and Trichodesmium.

Physiological / biochemical / genetic adaptations of marine invertebrates, including early life history stages, to environmental stress.

Here, we tested the effects ocean acidification in combination with elevated temperature on early life history stages of several spawning acroporids from the Great Barrier Reef.

The larval phase of a marine species is often the only time that coral reef inhabitants travel between habitat locations, an important early life history stage required to maintain healthy populations when environmental conditions fluctuate due to both natural and man - made factors.

Not exact matches

In the early stages of Biblical history men regarded the major good of existence as physical — ample creature comforts, a long life, a large family, and victory in war — and for these benefits the Hebrews besought Yahweh.

To Rieppel and his colleagues, Odontochelys represents an early stage of turtle history during which they were evolving their shells while living in water.

Therefore, the aims of my PhD were to 1) determine thermal tolerance ranges of early development and survival of coral larvae 2) assess the extent to which this tolerance varies across space, specifically I aimed to test whether high latitude species have a broader tolerance and 3) test whether difference between adult coral assemblages across a hypothesized dispersal barrier (Great Barrier Reef to Lord Howe Island) can be predicted by life history traits related to the dispersive larval stages (e.g., mode of larval development, mode of larval nutrition), adult ecology, and / or environmental parameters.

Early investigation of the life history of Kiwa n. sp. from the ESR also suggests that the larvae are brooded and hatch from eggs at a morphologically advanced stage, which is probably not conducive to long - distance dispersal in deep water.