Sentences with phrase «from turbidity»
Some scientists speculate that sewage and pesticides as well as light deprivation from turbidity are stressing corals, making them more susceptible to existing pathogens.
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«Significant impacts to the lake could result from incidental or accidental spills from 5,100 ships passing through every year; invasive species brought by transoceanic ships, which could threaten the extinction of aquatic plants and fish, such as the cichlids that have been evolving since the lake's formation; and frequent dredging, impacting aquatic life through alterations in turbidity and hypoxia, triggered by resuspension of nutrients and organic matter that exert a relatively high biochemical oxygen demand.»
Coral communities are also impacted by water turbidity, resulting from fertilizer runoff, and by overfishing.
Is it possible to extract the turbidity data from the OceanColor data?
Turbidity from human activity can smother the coral animals.
1; Shapley (1953); Wexler (1956), quote p. 494, adding that turbidity (from volcanoes) was equally important.