Sentences with phrase «in brackish»

Bull sharks are able to survive in brackish and fresh water, and have been known to swim far up rivers and hang out for months and even years at a time.

The vaquita, a porpoise living in brackish waters where the Colorado River empties into the Gulf of California, is critically endangered, biologists say, depleted by fishing nets and the disruptions in the great river's flow in the 20th century from dam construction.

In the brackish pools of this area, we see pink flamingos going about their business of feeding.

The young spend their juvenile stages in brackish water and the adults migrate into the marine environment.

The Violet Goby, sometimes called the Dragonfish is a beautiful, eel - like fish that lives in brackish waters.

«All of these creatures multiplying in the brackish far reaches, the suburbs coming out to meet them.»

Until recently, axolotls were said to be still living in the brackish canals of Xochimilco; in reality they're practically extinct even there.

Miscarriage, murder, poverty, and endemic racism, all set in a brackish sea of dreariness, is enough to make a body despair of humanity.

He said they were probably similar to the bull sharks of today, in the fact that they can survive in both brackish swamps and shallow oceans.Gogáin also mentioned that this may be part of the way fish started to colonize inland fresh waters.

Like the ancestors of modern terrestrial creatures, Qingmendous dwelled in brackish waters of lagoons, bays and deltas — within spitting distance of land.

The study indicates the Eocene Arctic sand tiger shark, a member of the lamniform group of sharks that includes today's great white, thresher and mako sharks, was thriving in the brackish water of the western Arctic Ocean back then.

The disease lives in brackish water and is closely associated with rainfall linked to the ENSO, spreading through contaminated water and shellfish.

Mangroves grow in brackish swamps and lagoons across the tropics.

Not exact matches

Some of the industry's largest players are also investing in high - tech water recycling systems to frack with grey or brackish water.

Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us — and thus meets the truth about itself.

Energy efficient, Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 offers superior performance in all waters: fresh, brackish and marine.

Blackwater is a bastardization of Brackwater, as in, the water is brackish, quite salty in fact, because the Essex coast is dry, by English standards anyway.

The Volunteers, ranked fifth in the nation (to the Gators» ninth) going into the game, slowly sank in Florida Field, a brackish place that Spurrier christened the Swamp.

The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water.

Five species of invasive gobies populate wide areas of freshwater and brackish waters in Central Europe — the species that is most common to the region around Basel, Neogobius melanostomus, even figures among the 100 worst invaders in Europe.

Duncan has founddozens of varieties of the grass over the years, in mangrove swamps andlow - lying bogs; some can remain submerged under brackish water for aslong as a month.

The population exposed to fluctuating selective pressure in a spawning area with occasional brackish water intrusions tolerated higher salinities on average, and performed reasonably well over a range of different salinities.

These layers meet and mix in a lens of brackish water called the halocline.

It grows in freshwater or brackish water.

Diatoms exist in both fresh and brackish environments.

Instead, brackish groundwater underneath the beaches has accumulated the second highest levels of the radioactive element (surpassed only by the groundwater directly beneath the reactor), researchers report October 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

Here a group of young men in the Niger Delta travel to the refinery that they built and operate, hidden deep within the brackish mangrove channels near the coast of the Atlantic.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

In addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metalIn addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metalin the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metals.

So when more recent waves and tides brought in salty seawater from the ocean, the brackish water underneath the beaches became salty enough to release the cesium from the sand, and it was carried back into the ocean.

Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated — in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away.

In any case, a new market analysis by Lux Research forecasts that the global desalinated water supply will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent during the next decade as Australia, Israel, Singapore, California and others build desalinization plants for seawater and inland brackish water as well as for water recycling.

The team filled the central chamber of their cell with brackish water containing 5 grams of sodium chloride per litre, as might be found in an estuary, and applied a voltage of 0.55 volts to the setup.

This rapid proliferation of unconventional oil and gas recovery has also resulted in millions of gallons of highly brackish wastewater, which comes up with the retrieved oil and gas.

For desalinating ocean water or brackish groundwater, new filtration technologies can make a real difference, Worley anticipates, citing «continual advancements in membrane materials and energy recovery systems.

In a new study scientists at SciLifeLab / Uppsala University and their colleagues report that whole genome sequencing of Atlantic and Baltic herring revealed hundreds of loci underlying adaptation to the brackish Baltic Sea or timing of reproduction.

A study published in Genome Biology, led by Anders Andersson at KTH Royal Institute of Technology / SciLifeLab, shows that the closest relatives of bacterial plankton in the Baltic Sea are not found in oceans or freshwater lakes, but in other brackish environments.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

A. bridgei is the last common ancestor of modern jawed fishes and supposedly lived in quite shallow brackish waters.

My research has a particular focus on primary producers in the Arctic marine ice - covered ecosystem, which include sea ice algae, ice melt water (brackish) flora and phytoplankton.

They also can live in semi-salty, or brackish, water.

Vibrio bacteria live in coastal bodies of salt water or brackish water; people can contract the bugs by swimming in contaminated water or even eating contaminated raw seafood, like oysters.

There are some 12 different species of Vibrio living in salt or brackish water that oysters might come into contact with.

Online I thought this was a pretty light lilac and I was very disappointed to see the only color option in real life was a brackish mud.

2018-04-07 13:49 Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

The cast of Independence Day 2 has swelled further this week, with director Roland Emmerich revealing via Twitter that actress Joey King (Oz The Great and Powerful, Wish I Was Here) has joined the sequel, as well as confirming the return of Brent Spiner, who featured in the 1996 original as Dr. Brackish Okun.

Brent Spiner will reprise his Independence Day role as Dr. Brackish Okun in Independence Day 2, alongside new cast member Joey King.

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