Sentences with phrase «just as the algae»

This plant needs nitrogen and phosphorus, just as the algae do.

After all, surface mats of duckweed can block out sunlight just as the algae can.

Not exact matches

So just as different cells in a leaf contain different amounts of chlorophyll, coral cells seem to house different amounts of the photosynthetic algae that makes their food, Symbiodinium.

These ice - adapted algae are typically brownish - grey, less visibly dramatic than the red and green blooms but just as important for darkening the ice sheet.

Woodfield consulted with algae experts, including Meinesz, who fingered the Mediterranean clone or one just as invasive.

Just as in algae biofuel production on land, the floating OMEGA bags use water, solar energy and carbon dioxide — which in this case is absorbed through the plastic membrane — to produce sugar that algae metabolize into lipids.

When exposed to today's CO2 concentrations, the production was just as high as in present calcifying algae.

«Our results provide convincing field evidence that grazing by small animals can be just as important as good water quality in preventing nuisance algae blooms and keeping seagrass beds healthy.»

(Sometimes known as blue - green algae or blue - green bacteria, these microorganisms were grouped together with algae until just a few years ago.)

(Though, since that first episode covered primarily the oxygen cycle, diatoms and algae blooms were just mentioned as the source of half of the oxygen we breathe, as opposed to rainforests, which are important for the rain cycle that gets nutrients from the mountains into the oceans but which are using up all the oxygen they produce.

Much of which I will attribute to you Ben (i.e. to list a few I now have a huge infrared sauna in my garage, take pond scum a.k.a. algae daily, smell like a sweet marinara sauce from skin serum I got from listening to this podcast, have totally rekindled my love for coffee, have a cool fat burner vest which I put on (often after a cold shower), etc.) The change is dizzying and hard to keep up with and it is extremely important that we remember that although the changes are good our bodies just don't adjust that fast and we have to allow adequate time for us (as well as our wallets) to metabolize those changes.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

Another bonus: Because algae can be grown just about anywhere in an enclosed space, it's being tested at several power plants across the nation as a carbon absorber.

(Though, since that first episode covered primarily the oxygen cycle, diatoms and algae blooms were just mentioned as the source of half of the oxygen we breathe, as opposed to rainforests, which are important for the rain cycle that gets nutrients from the mountains into the oceans but which are using up all the oxygen they produce.

The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to climate change; a NOAA study links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.