Sentences with phrase «extreme habitats»

And in case that's not enough, here are five other big finds in the life sciences, from the most extreme habitats on Earth to the limits of evolution.

MaCuMBA coordinator Prof Lucas Stal (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)-RRB-, said: «MaCuMBA aims to improve the isolation rate and growth efficiency of marine microorganisms from conventional and extreme habitats by applying innovative methods and using automated high - throughput procedures.

Laboratory and field experiments, observations at naturally extreme habitats and modelling approaches help researchers to evaluate the reactions of the ecosystem ocean.

The three - leg mission will bring light to extreme habitats, sponge communities, mud volcanoes, hydrothermal vents and some of the planet's strangest creatures.

The lineages of these groups are not restricted to extreme habitats, as was once thought common for archaeal species; rather, archaea are widespread and occur in all thinkable environments on Earth, where they can make up substantial portions of the microbial biomass.

We therefore contend that these corals should be considered for assisted migration from their endangered, extreme habitats to the tropical Indo - Pacific.

Around these islands the extreme habitat has resulted in high levels of endemism - although overall diversity is low, many of the plant species are found only in this particular habitat.

If we hit two degrees Celsius, the changes the earth faces will be permanent — extreme habitat and biodiversity loss, coupled with melting icecaps and rising sea levels.

«There's a lot of people looking at these extreme habitats on Earth as models for what we might discover when we go to other planets,» Cordes says.