Sentences with phrase «effects of acidification»

When both factors were combined, the positive temperature effect compensated for the negative effect of acidification — regardless of how much food the animals received.

They then injected the water - tight tubes, called mesocosms, with CO2, to reproduce sea life under different acidity levels expected from now until 2150 with the aim of studying the potentially disastrous effects of acidification on marine life.

In these forests the combined effect of acidification in headwater streams and stream warming will restrict acid - sensitive coldwater species such as brook trout to a narrowing band of mid-level stream reaches, increasing the likelihood that these species will disappear locally and possibly regionally.

The similar responses in echinoplutei across regions, including smaller arms, changes in morphometry and increased abnormality and mortality are likely owing to the interactive effects of this metabolic stressor (hypercapnia) and the toxic effects of acidification on regulation of development and body patterning.

New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks suggests Arctic waters are already seeing the effects of acidification, with potentially dire consequences to Alaska's rich crab and salmon fisheries

In a new study published in Global Change Biology, University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science researchers Sean Bignami, Su Sponaugle, and Robert Cowen are the first to study the effects of acidification on the larvae of cobia (Rachycentron canandum).

There are opposite latitudinal gradients in these threats to reefs, meaning that areas projected to experience annual bleaching later are exposed to the effects of acidification for longer.

The German research network BIOACID examines the effects of acidification on the life and biogeochemical cycles in the ocean - and on all those who depend on it.

Another novelty of the experiment: fishery biologists added herring eggs into the mesocosms to test the effects of acidification on hatching success and larval development.

Because we could not collect sufficient hindgut content to serve as a medium in which to perform in vitro testing of the effect of acidification on the growth of the five primary hindgut bacteria, we used LB broth instead.

During the water fast we supply ample amount of alkaline water to offset the effects of the acidification process.

Tiny coccolithophorids form vast populations She is particularly concerned about the effects of acidification on plankton at the bottom of the fisheries food chain called coccolithophorids.

It is probably premature to make definitive claims about the effects of acidification on individual examples without further research.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of scientific literature on the effect of acidification on marine ecosystems.

By contrast, for marine ecosystems no local solution exists to temper the effects of acidification on the behavioural impairment observed in fishes.