Sentences with phrase «in shallow coastal waters»

The creature's heavy bones, like a scuba diver's weight belt, counteracted natural buoyancy and probably enabled it to forage in shallow coastal waters, Jiang says.

The second species spawns smaller, but tougher, eggs in shallow coastal waters.

Both species winter in deeper waters and feed in shallow coastal waters in the summer.

Seagrass meadows are found in shallow coastal waters around the world.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

Not exact matches

Their eggs and larvae drifted for weeks offshore, bathed in oily water, before the juveniles at last took refuge in the shallow coastal estuaries, where they will mature.

«Our goal was to sample in shallow water, and close to the bottom for larvae of coastal benthic invertebrates.»

This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than in the open ocean, but also because fish are much more abundant near the coastal shelf, due to coastal upwelling and the abundance of nutrients available there.

They are highly productive shallow water marine and coastal habitats comprised of marine plants, and these threatened areas provide important food and shelter for animals in the sea.

«Eastern Australian salmon is highly vulnerable because their distribution is limited to shallow coastal and estuarine waters in southern Australia and New Zealand,» said Miranda Jones, the study's lead author, who was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries when the study was underway.

Together with similar tracks found recently in other parts of the world, the Skye trackways reveal that sauropods spent lots of time in coastal areas and shallow water.

Careers: In waters deep and shallow — As an island, Britain has a special interest in what inhabits its coastal, territorial and inland wateIn waters deep and shallow — As an island, Britain has a special interest in what inhabits its coastal, territorial and inland watein what inhabits its coastal, territorial and inland waters

For most of their early history, these sharks lived in shallow, coastal waters.

Prefer to feed in coastal bays and estuaries, as well as in the shallow water along the continental shelves of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Shallow coastal waters are sheltered by the Belize Barrier Reef which is the largest reef system in the Western Hemisphere.

And shouldn't the relative T - difference even increase in the future as shallower coastal waters heat up more quickly than deeper ocean water (except probably in upwelling areas)?

Shallow coastal waters that cool quickly may provide lingering April ice in the Arctic in 120 years or so, justifying a sigmoid treatment of the source function at that time, but perhaps it is not appropriately applied to September data now.

Shakhova et al (2013) argue that bottom water temperatures are increasing more than had been recognized, in particular in near - coastal (shallow) waters.

Offshore electricity generation, mainly from wind, has increased rapidly in recent years, notably in the relatively shallow coastal waters of Europe's North Sea.

In some parts of the coastal area, the conventional shallow and deep handpump tubewells are not successful because of very high salinity in ground wateIn some parts of the coastal area, the conventional shallow and deep handpump tubewells are not successful because of very high salinity in ground watein ground water.

In some parts of the coastal area having very shallow immobile and continuous fresh water aquifers and scat - tered population, drinking water supply by means very low cost VSST and SST has been proved successful.

But in the coastal area, the salinity distributions in ground water and replenishment of water in deep and shallow aquifers are regulated by complex hydrogeolog - ical phenomena.

The four coastal states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia have 82 percent of the total Atlantic coast wind potential in shallow water... These four states also have some of the lowest construction costs for offshore wind turbines all along the eastern seaboard, and they're among the largest and fastest - growing electricity markets.

In parallel, the increase in air temperatures will exacerbate levels of thermal stress on coastal shallow water biota [7], with concerns that temperature spikes may exceed tolerance levelIn parallel, the increase in air temperatures will exacerbate levels of thermal stress on coastal shallow water biota [7], with concerns that temperature spikes may exceed tolerance levelin air temperatures will exacerbate levels of thermal stress on coastal shallow water biota [7], with concerns that temperature spikes may exceed tolerance levels.

In some coastal areas of the ocean (and large lakes such as the North American Great Lakes), the combination of persistent winds, Earth's rotation (the Coriolis effect), and restrictions on lateral movements of water caused by shorelines and shallow bottoms induces upward and downward water movements.