Sentences with phrase «how ocean ecosystems»

There have been reports that have tracked smaller and short - term changes like ENSO and NAO and how ocean ecosystems have reacted.

Without these tools, scientists are less able to link specific genes to cell behavior or determine how microbes interact within their environment and with one another — critical information for understanding how ocean ecosystems function.

He and his team reached this conclusion by marrying computer models of how ocean ecosystems behave to models that simulate the climate.

On one hand, the ability to track squid with sonar may reveal new details about how ocean ecosystems work.

Not exact matches

During the months and months of BP's ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and even after it was finally halted, researchers struggled to determine how the oil hidden below the ocean surface was moving, and whether it was disrupting Gulf ecosystems.

New research investigates how jellyfishes are succeeding fishes as dominant players in ocean ecosystems

Just about every naturally occurring element churns through the earth's oceans, yet scientists have only a glimmer of understanding of how these chemicals influence marine ecosystems.

A crucial reason why the study of freshwater acidification has lagged until now is because determining how atmospheric carbon affects these ecosystems requires complex modeling, and is much less clear than that occurring in oceans, according to study author Linda Weiss, an aquatic ecologist at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

Our work was the most comprehensive investigation to date of how mercury is deposited to the Arctic tundra, a vast northern ecosystem surrounding the Arctic Ocean.

Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.

Given the current dramatic rate of change in the ocean nitrogen cycle the researchers are not sure how long it will take for marine ecosystems to adapt.

The European research project ECO2, coordinated at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, addresses the question of how marine ecosystems react to such CO2 - leaks.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

Hence, Scheyer and his colleagues wanted to establish whether the apex predators really were missing from the oceans after the mass extinction and how the ecosystems functioned.

«We'd like to find out how the marine ecosystem of the Antarctic Ocean is actually shifting or changing and not just look at whales but [also at] krill and the oceanographic situation,» Morishita said.

Coral skeletons are the building blocks of diverse coral reef ecosystems, which has led to increasing concern over how these key species will cope with warming and acidifying oceans that threaten their stability.

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

To address the knowledge gap about the globally - relevant ecosystem process of nutrient uptake, researchers worked to identify how different levels of microbial biodiversity influenced in situ phosphorus uptake in the Western Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean.

«In order to predict how ecosystems will react when you heat up the planet or acidify the ocean, we first need to understand the mechanisms of everyday carbon cycling — who's involved and how are they doing it?»

Nor do scientists have a good handle on how much microbial biomass exists in the ocean crust — an ecosystem that according to some estimates covers about 60 % of Earth's surface.

2016 Mar 180 (3): 889 - 901, doi: 10.1007 / s00442 -015-3489-x BIOACID in brief: Under the umbrella of BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), 10 institutions examine how marine ecosystems react to ocean acidification, how this affects the food web and the exchange of material and energy in the ocean and how the changes influence the socio - economic seOcean Acidification), 10 institutions examine how marine ecosystems react to ocean acidification, how this affects the food web and the exchange of material and energy in the ocean and how the changes influence the socio - economic seocean acidification, how this affects the food web and the exchange of material and energy in the ocean and how the changes influence the socio - economic seocean and how the changes influence the socio - economic sector.

The GOA - ON Requirements and Governance Plan provides both broad concepts and key critical details on how to meet our high level goals of: 1) to improve our understanding of global ocean acidification conditions; 2) to improve our understanding of ecosystem response to ocean acidification; 3) and to acquire and exchange the data and knowledge necessary to optimize the modeling of ocean acidification and its impacts.

How are humans driving changes in the chemistry of the ocean, and what might this mean for marine ecosystems in the future?

We study how the Coastal Oceans are intimately tied to the land through Nearshore Marine Ecosystems, and how the land is intimately tied to the ocean through Coastal Watersheds.

It is important to closely monitor how climate change and our increasing use of the oceans are affecting important marine resources and ecosystems.

But we wanted to observe the natural development of the plankton ecosystem from the first productivity in late winter until summer, closely monitor the succession of the plankton communities and follow how effects of ocean acidification are transmitted from one generation to the next,» Riebesell explains.

A paper published last week in the journal Science examined how the ocean's ecosystems react to such warming from climate change.

The overall goal of this sympsoium is to bring together experts from around the world to better understand climate impacts on ocean ecosystems — and how to respond.

Theme 3 is improving biogeochemical, sediment, and coupled ocean - climate models to better account for how ocean acidification will affect ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystems.

There's still a host of unanswered questions about the residents of Lake Whillans and how they contribute to the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean.

In a large - scale field experiment, 53 scientists from Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain and the United States are investigating how ocean acidification influences important functions in an ecosystem representative for two - thirds of the world's oceans.

How do marine ecosystems respond to ocean acidification?

Its staff conducts basic research on the interactions among Earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans to understand how these interactions shape the behavior of the Earth system, including its response to future change.

The name is an acronym for «Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification «within which 14 institutes explore how marine organisms react to ocean acidification and the impact on the food web, the ecosystems in the sea and ultimately also on the economy and socOcean Acidification «within which 14 institutes explore how marine organisms react to ocean acidification and the impact on the food web, the ecosystems in the sea and ultimately also on the economy and sococean acidification and the impact on the food web, the ecosystems in the sea and ultimately also on the economy and society.

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Show your appreciation for the foundation of many marine ecosystems and learn how you can help protect our ocean reefs!

However, this in itself is not enough to define what level of warming is «dangerous,» especially since the projections of actual impacts for any level of warming are highly uncertain, and depend on further factors such as how quickly these levels are reached (so how long ecosystems and society have had to respond), and what other changes are associated with them (eg: carbon dioxide concentration, since this affects plant photosynthesis and water use efficiency, and ocean acidification).

People should test to fertilize planktos in ocean and observe how much it works, what affecting to the ecosystem, first, then commercial this teconology.

The findings of a new hybrid species of shark goes to show just how versatile life can be in dealing with the ecosystem altering forces of climate change — proving yet again that within the depths of the world's oceans and its most keenly adapted inhabitants, there may be no shortage of natural marvels and awesome phenomena left to be discovered.

How all these effects will combine and impact the ocean ecosystem is an important but unresolved question.

There will be effects on the ocean ecosystem but it is unclear exactly what the effects and just how serious they will be.

I think this paper, and a few others like it that have been published in recent years, indicate that the response of differernt coccolithophore species to changing CO2 is species dependent and more studies will be required to determine how these responses from different species might cause a shift in species abundances in the oceans and the ecosystem as a whole.

The coral reef ecosystems provide food and income for upwards of 100 million people, and a new study shows exactly how that networks keeps fish in the oceans.

The project examines the current state of the ocean ecosystem around the Antarctic Peninsula — and how it's changing.

Monitoring the ocean to its full depth with consistently calibrated instrumentation all over the globe — and doing so for decades at a time — is critical to track how global warming impacts the oceans» ecosystems and biogeochemical processes.

By advocating effectively, and educating their peers, and demonstrating how the destruction of ecosystems, declines in crop yields, and acidification of the oceans could reverse recent advances in global health, health professionals can help persuade the wider public and put pressure on governments to take immediate action.

«What's even more inexcusable is that some fracking fluids were discharged directly into the ocean without any scientific understanding of how these chemicals impact ocean ecosystems,» said Sekich.

Given the importance of this question for ocean ecosystems and fisheries, longer time series studies to understand how these systems are changing as a result of climate change are a priority (high agreement).

State - of - the - art ecosystem models build on empirical observations of past climate changes and enable development of estimates of how ocean life may react in the future.