Sentences with word «heterotrophic»

Vegetation carbon -LRB--RRB- was predicted to increase by an average of 270 Pg C from preindustrial levels across the models by 2100, but saturating NPP and increasing heterotrophic respiration led to a reduction in NEP after 2050.

«By further customizing this system, we expect that the artificial cultivation of various fungal heterotrophic plants will become simplified and highly efficient.

Most likely, a hundred years from now, corn acreage will still be about the same, and biofuels will be based on heterotrophic algae, fed with sugars, including corn sugars, or based on something else entirely.

At least four key findings from these projects relating to arctic heterotrophic food web, pelagic - benthic coupling and biodiversity have emerged: (1) Contrary to a long - standing paradigm of dormant ecosystems during the long arctic winter, major food web components showed relatively high level of winter activity, well before the spring release of ice algae and subsequent phytoplankton bloom.

In addition, plants also release oxygen to the atmosphere, which is subsequently used for respiration by heterotrophic organisms, forming a cycle.

Phototrophic bacteria uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make its own energy, while heterotrophic bacteria must «feed» on provided organic matter or phototrophic bacteria to survive — think of cows grazing in a grassy field.

The objective of this ESR is first to obtain an overview of the biodiversity of heterotrophic microeukaryotes using the phylogenetic affiliation of single cells from marine assemblages.

Their crucial role, Hayes argues, was to eat many of the photosynthetic plankton that would previously have died and drifted around in the water where heterotrophic bacteria could reach them.

Modern heterotrophic bacteria, he says, break organic matter down into molecules that are rich in carbon - 13.

Downcore changes in carbon and sulfur cycling show discrete geochemical intervals with chemoautotrophic δ13C signatures locally attenuated by heterotrophic metabolism.

In this week's Nature (vol 376, p 55), the researchers argue that ancient heterotrophic bacteria could have been the «brake» that prevented the accumulation of oxygen.

The so - called heterotrophic hypothesis says that life arose from an organic soup of small molecules that were either brought to Earth by extraterrestrial objects or were produced through lightning - triggered reactions that combined gasses.

The interdisciplinary nature of the SINGEK network makes it a perfect fit and allows me to experiment with data - mining of marine heterotrophic protists in many great institutions.

Biodiversity studies of marine microbial eukaryotes have revealed a large diversity of taxonomic lineages, especially within the smaller size classes of heterotrophic cells.

In addition to unique heterotrophic relationships, novel symbiotic relationships are often discovered during exploration of deep - sea habitats.

During the discovery of New Zealand's methane seeps, an unexpectedly dense habitat of heterotrophic infauna, dominated by ampharetid polychaetes, was found to co-occur with incredibly high methane emission.

My PhD project (ESR 1) will focus upon the extension of our knowledge of the biodiversity of the hidden heterotrophic micro-eukaryotes using single cell sequencing technology.

If data are available, use physiological studies of dominant corals to assess likely resistance and tolerance based on zooxanthellae type, photo - protective pigments, or tissue condition (lipid levels), and / or heterotrophic capacity.

These kind of heterotrophic systems are typical for the northern parts of the world.

Cultivation - Independent and Cultivation - Dependent Analysis of Microbes in the Shallow - Sea Hydrothermal System Off Kueishantao Island, Taiwan: Unmasking Heterotrophic Bacterial Diversity and Functional Capacity — Kai Tang — Frontiers in Microbiology

The diazotrophic community was dominated by the unicellular cyanobacteria symbiont (prymnesiophyte - UCYN - A1) and heterotrophic diazotrophs, therefore suggesting that Fe could be the ultimate factor limiting N2 fixation of these smaller diazotrophs as well.

At low trophic levels, bacterioplankton and heterotrophic alveolates remained productive despite the lack of primary production (e.g. Forest et al. 2011; Sala et al. 2008; Terrado et al. 2009).

Hicks Pries CE, van Logtestijn RSP, Schuur EAG, Natali SM, Cornelissen JHC, Aerts R, Dorrepaal E (2015b) Decadal warming causes a consistent and persistent shift from heterotrophic to autotrophic respiration in contrasting permafrost ecosystems.

In the absence of climate change effects (lowest three bars), models simulate increased uptake by ocean and land (primarily as a result of CO2 enhancement of NPP), with a slight offset of the land uptake by enhancement of the specific heterotrophic respiration rate (see Section 7.3.5.3.2).

Benthic biofilms are composed of a community of photoautotrophic organisms, predominantly diatoms and cyanobacteria, together with heterotrophic microbes, bound together by an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS).

Orchidaceous plants fall into the myco - heterotrophic plant group.

This is done by autotrophic life, while this autotrophic life in turn becomes an energy sources for heterotrophic life.

In the end, we may wind - up feeding corn sugars to heterotrophic algae or duckweed, and multiply the yield of carbohydrates, oils and proteins several more times.

Detection of gene repertoires related to ecological functions (phagocytosis, organic matter degradation, membrane transporters, meiosis) in different lineages of heterotrophic microeukaryotes.

Heterotrophic bacteria require oxygen, and the new results suggest that there were enough of them around to mop up most of the oxygen produced by photosynthetic organisms.

Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi is one of the co-authors of «Self - sustaining, solar - driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell using co-culture of heterotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria.»

Myco - heterotrophic plants germinate and grow through a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi.

The best explanation, says Hayes, is that these hydrocarbons were formed by «heterotrophic» bacteria, which fed by rotting down the organic material from dead photosynthetic cells.

Around 600 million years ago, however, the heterotrophic bacteria seem to have gone into decline.

After being eaten by plankton - grazing animals, the cells» remains would have been packaged into faecal pellets which sank quickly to the ocean floor, out of reach of the heterotrophic bacteria.

The oceans of around 1 billion years ago, the researchers argue, were topped by a thin oxygenated layer populated with photosynthetic organisms and heterotrophic bacteria.