Sentences with phrase «in aquatic food chains»

Although inorganic Hg species have severe health effects on humans, methylmercury is thought to be the highly toxic species involved in bioaccumulation in aquatic food chains.

The unsolved mystery resurfaced in the PNAS cyanobacteria bloom study, which provides the first evidence for BMAA biomagnification in an aquatic food chain.

Endocrine - disrupting industrial toxins in the aquatic food chain may affect genital development of boys

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The relationship between fish consumption and diabetes risk may be due to toxic pollutants that build up in the aquatic food chain.

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Students will also participate in building an aquatic food chain using the creatures we discover.

Constituting the foundation of the aquatic food chain, cyanobacteria are a favorite meal of fish and mollusks, which are in turn eaten by us.

To test the state of the ocean, researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Makati, Philippines, assigned each major food fish a «trophic level,» depending on how high it is on the food chain.

This toxic compound accumulates up the aquatic food chain and is often concentrated at high levels in fish, shellfish and marine mammals — and ultimately in the people who eat them.

Chemicals in the sediment can cause reproductive problems in mammals, birds and aquatic life, and they become increasingly concentrated as they move through the food chains of ecosystems.

New research from Lund University in Sweden investigates how nanosized plastic particles affect aquatic animals in different parts of the food chain.

Mercury accumulates in aquatic and terrestrial food chains, and has harmful neurological and reproductive effects on animals.

Now that Mainland et al have published «The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire» and Foote et al have published «Tracking niche variation over millennial timescales in sympatric killer whale lineages,» the similarities at the top of the aquatic and terrestrial food chains attest to the power of conserved molecular mechanisms to link cause and effect across all species via olfaction and odor receptors, which is what I detailed in the review I submitted last week.

It's home to millions of baitfish, crabs, shrimp, and other small aquatics, serving as the first link in the undersea food chain that supports the most abundant marine life in the Caribbean.

The cool nutrient - rich waters of the north Pacific are able to provide kelp forests with millions of plankton - the base of the aquatic food chain — due to an upwelling of water from the deep sea in the stormy, winter months.

I fear that many hidden tripping points have already been passed eg increase in disease, demise of soil micro-organisms, slowing down of oceanic currents, melting ice, sea level rise, decline of aquatic food chains.

See http://www.cesm.gatech.edu/faculty/fernandez/index.php Study of the Biogeochemical Cycling of Fe: Plankton plays a crucial role in the Earth's life dynamics; this tiny organisms lie at the bottom of the aquatic food chain, and its fate is thus thought to have deep implications in global climate change.

Criteria Description Fish Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to fish (both saltwater and freshwater) Daphnia Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to Daphnia (invertebrate aquatic organisms) Algae Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to aquatic plants Persistence / Biodegradation Rate of degradation for a substance in the environment (air, soil, or water) Bioaccumulation Potential for a substance to accumulate in fatty tissue and magnify up the food chain Climatic relevance Measure of the impact a substance has on the climate (e.g., ozone depletion, global warming, etc.) Other Any additional characteristic (e.g., soil organism toxicity, WGK water classification, etc.) relevant to the overall evaluation but not included in the previous criteria 1.3.3 Material Class Criteria The following material classes are flagged due to the concern that at some point in their life cycle they may have negative impacts on human and environmental health.