Sentences with phrase «food by marine animals»

It is harmful for the environment as it does not get break down easily and is often considered as food by marine animals.

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Litter is a problem in the marine environment as it can be mistaken for food and eaten by some animals or can entangle coral and fish — a process known as «ghost fishing.»

A multicellular marine animal without organs, Trichoplax's feeding behavior may include cellular coordination, resulting in external food digestion, according to a study published September 2, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Carolyn Smith and colleagues from the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD..

However, researchers have long been puzzled by the fact that, over the long term, the steady fall of marine snow can not account for all the food consumed by animals and microbes living in the sediment.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

The Oregon coast produces lots of phytoplankton (small marine plants) which are eaten by zooplankton (small marine animals) including bottom dwelling amphipods and mysid shrimp — primary food of the Gray Whales.

Marine animals are suffering from the decimation of their food sources from overfishing and from assaults by destructive fishing gear, military sonar, oil drilling and pollution.

Whales are already facing significant threats from climate change, marine pollution, ship strikes, etc., and it is irresponsible for industrialized nations such as Iceland to put even greater pressure on these animals by hunting them to supply a luxury food market.