Sentences with phrase «for plankton»

If environmental groups can sponsor rainforest protection for carbon sequestration, there's no reason why utility companies can't contemplate the same for plankton.

«Jellyfish both compete with fish for plankton food, and predate directly on fish,» says Andrew Brierley of the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Plankton blooms are a regular feature in the springtime ocean near Iceland, so if the ash is foodstuff for the plankton the timing seems to have been fortunate.

But they worried that means fewer nutrients for plankton or something.

«It's the first time that anyone's done this expedition looking specifically for plankton life, and that's why we found so many,»

We know that acidification of the ocean makes it more difficult for some plankton to make shells.

Since the mid 1990's, Arctic sea ice has been behaving more like Antarctic sea ice and that has been good news for plankton, cod, seals, and bears.

This dynamic upwelling system drives the oceanic food web providing nutrients for plankton and small fish to proliferate.

These nutrients, combined with CO2 and sunlight provide food for plankton and the shrimp and fish that feed on plankton.

Basking sharks, the 3rd largest species reaching 30 feet in length, were formerly easy to observe as they slowly trawled along the surface for plankton with their giant fins sticking into the air.

We know that acidification of the ocean makes it more difficult for some plankton to make shells.

Plankton and larval ecology, bio-physical interactions, development and use of optical imaging tools for plankton and benthic habitat mapping, development of data products for ecosystems approaches to management, ocean observing systems in polar, temperate and tropical environments, chair ORION - OOI sensors advisory committee

RE # 39 (sorry for being off - topic), there are still more threats to plankton from GW, according to a NATURE article just out («Decline of the marine ecosystem caused by a reduction in the Atlantic overturning circulation,» Schmittner, Vol 434 No 7033, Mar 31, p. 628): If the Atlantic ocean conveyor is disrupted due to freshwater entering, then the nutrients for plankton will not be churned up, perhaps reducing plankton by half.

Only when we know when and where certain nutrients are available for plankton growth we can also estimate how much carbon the plankton can bind by photosynthesis and thus remove from the atmosphere.»

For example, they may help researchers understand the full — and perhaps changing — potential for the plankton ecosystem to act as a sink to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

It hunts for plankton and other small prey using an active electric sense.

Not exact matches

Recently, seagulls in Washington state have started eating their own chicks, for example, because rising water temperatures have caused plankton, their main food source, to vanish.

But the instrumental value of plankton for the whole system of life in the ocean is enormous.

Organic bivalve shellfish (mussels, clams, oysters) are fed by natural plankton and algae in tidal zones, so this industry is relatively easy in clean oceans, such as those near the south coast of Australia, where there are already certified operators for mussels and oysters.

At night, as the mysterious guests sliced through the gentle swells, phosphorescent plankton would gather around their fins, lighting a path for the ship through the water.

This move would allow the agency to continue funding for several Earth Science missions slated for elimination in the request, including Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 3 (OCO - 3), Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE), and Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder.

Dr. Sergey Piontkovski, a marine biologist from Ukraine, was accused of revealing state secrets for publishing his unclassified research on plankton and illegal currency transactions for accepting grants from foreign funding organizations in October 1999.

The seismic airguns used to look for undersea oil don't just disrupt marine mammals, their shock waves also kill and disperse the plankton population

His model took into account both an individual plankton's body size and its metabolism's dependence on temperature to quantify how much energy it takes to fuel all the genetic changes that must occur in order for a new species to emerge.

Teams of marine scientists are towing nets to scoop up plankton, tagging large predators to track their migrations, sequencing the DNA in seawater to hunt for microbes, and trawling the seafloor for bottom dwellers.

Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and storing it deep under the sea — isolated from the atmosphere for centuries.

It pumps 20 liters (about 5.3 gallons) of seawater and plankton per second through a «light tight» collection chamber large enough to capture even fast swimmers and keep them inside long enough for the device's fiber - optic instruments to record and measure, in photons per liter, the size, duration, and number of an organism's flashes.

She called it the splat - cam — for spatial plankton analysis technique.

They include the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Earth - observing mission, which is planned for a 2022 launch.

The species, native to the Caspian and Black Sea basins, was well known on that side of the Atlantic for its ability to fuse to any hard surface, growing in wickedly sharp clusters that can bloody boaters» hands and swimmers» feet, plug pipes, foul boat bottoms and suck the plankton — the life — out of the waters they invade.

By fertilising plankton blooms that lock away carbon dioxide, iron - laden dust seems to have been the planet's main thermostat for the past 4 million years.

Friedman subsequently reexamined dusty museum archives and found neglected fossils showing that similar gape - mouthed, plankton - eating fish had thrived all over the world for more than 100 million years.

The business case is to sell the CO2 declines generated by such plankton blooms via an international or national market for such emissions reductions.

But dictating the species composition of a plankton bloom and its aftermath remains beyond the ken of marine biology, causing one researcher involved in the successful 2004 effort, marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this stage.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

Fortunately, plankton and plants have been doing that for eons.

Plankton are literally at the bottom of the food chain, a source of nourishment for virtually every animal in the sea.

He christened them plankton, after the Greek word for «drifting.»

Scientists thought that by providing iron, a trace element required for growth, they could create large plankton blooms and draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Traditionally, pumps and nets are used for sampling plankton, which require sampling at predetermined stations or towing nets behind a ship, followed by visually sorting collected organisms into taxonomic groups.

The plankton that feed on the dust's minerals can bloom significantly, providing food for other ocean creatures, but an overgrown bloom can consume much of the dissolved oxygen in an area and create an anoxic dead zone.

Plankton, for example, thrive on iron.

Sunlight that penetrates the ice is also critical for algae and plankton of the Arctic Ocean.

Plankton, crustaceans and fish, all food for wildlife, reproduce at the dynamic edge of the sea ice, where it floats over shallow near - shore waters.

«If silver carp eat all the plankton that the prey of adult walleye would eat, then you get less prey for the walleye and less walleye.»

«Knowing their specific prey and if they are following blooms of particular plankton would be a way for us to remotely detect places where we might find these rays.

In his letter on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), Graham Cox suggests it could be used to fertilise surface waters with nutrient - rich deep water to promote plankton growth for carbon capture (1 December, p 31).

More fresh water in the surface water layers makes it harder for the nutrient - rich bottom water to rise to the upper layers where the sunlight ensures the production of plankton algae in summer.

They make a toxin called domoic acid, which is consumed by other plankton that in turn become food for fish and other organisms.

Plankton algae form the basis for all life in the sea and a lower production of algae will result in a lower production of fish.