Sentences with phrase «effects on other organisms»

Porter warned that if corals continue to die, he sees «the possibility of disruption of ecosystem function» — with far - ranging effects on other organisms.

Not exact matches

That is, those events which are later than others lie in the same direction as the more evolved stages of the biosphere, the more developed stages of individual organisms, the more entropic states of closed physical systems, or the events of a causal chain which can be the effects but not the causes of a given event on the chain.

Other heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium have no known vital or beneficial effect on organisms, and their accumulation over time in the bodies of mammals can cause serious illness.

By now, European astronauts had hoped to be established in their space laboratory called Columbus, where they would be melting and solidifying conductive metals, studying microgravity effects on single - celled organisms, investigating human balance disorders, and carrying out dozens of other experiments.

This is the first study to show that microwaves can have an effect on living organisms other than just heating them up.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

«Several experiments have demonstrated that the effects of various environmental factors on marine organisms either add up or attenuate each other.

Taking the microbiome into account may be important for accurate phenotype - genotype analysis due to the increasing awareness of the impact the microbes have on different body sites, through the products they produce, their ability to protect against invading organisms, their direct interaction with the cell structures and the extracellular milieu, provoking inflammatory or immune responses, and many other effects.

Please do not believe those who promote drinking coffee to prevent AD (even if there is some truth in it) because caffeine in coffee and other products is a poison and leads to many dangerous effects on human organism including brain and nervous system:

There is no intrinsic constraint on live crown area for trees of this size other than the resources the organism is able to devote to this process (except for factors like average stand height and their effect upon exposure at the individual tree level).

thereby shifting CO2 from the atmosphere to the oceans in equilibrium, neutralizing the effect of CO2 on pH. Ocean surface waters are super-saturated with Ocean surface waters are super-saturated with respect to CaCO3, allowing the growth of corals and other organisms that produce shells or skeletons of carbonate minerals.»

Until this study, with few exceptions, studies of potential effects of climate change in the Amazon have focused on forests and other organisms on land,» says Kirk Winemiller, a professor in the wildlife and fisheries sciences department of Texas A&M University in the US, and one of the authors.

Microbiologists use microscopes and other diagnostic equipment to study small organisms and their effects on surroundings.