Sentences with phrase «effects on aquatic ecosystems»

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Disrupting a population could also produce ripple effects in other corners of the ecosystem, for example taking a food source from aquatic predators that feed on mosquito larvae.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

In the new research on salt alternatives — the first study to ever compare the effects of road salt alternatives and additives on aquatic ecosystems — researchers outfitted 64 mesocosms with many of the important players in an aquatic food web including, algae, zooplankton, amphipods, isopods, and snails.

Current studies include the exploration of Arctic deep - sea life under the ice, and the long - term observation of the effects of global warming on polar ecosystems as well as on hypoxic aquatic ecosystems.

The Royal Society has just issued a summary report on the effects of CO2 on the pH chemistry of seawater and aquatic organisms and ecosystems.

Water monitoring will be done through a comprehensive and integrated approach that quantifies and assesses the sources, transport, loadings, fate, and types of oil sands contaminants in the Athabasca River system and effects on key aquatic ecosystem components (both within the oil sands development area and in downstream receiving environments) that are measures of ecosystem health and integrity (fish, invertebrates).

Long - term CO2 enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter - term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth - enhancing, water - conserving, and stress - alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on plants growing in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

The interactive effects of excess reactive nitrogen and climate change on aquatic ecosystems and water resources of the United States

«At mid - latitudes the ozone decrease would be up to 40 percent, which could have huge effects on human health and on terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.»