Sentences with phrase «key organisms»

Researchers from IGB have demonstrated in earlier studies that microplastics might be harmful to ecosystems when ingested by aquatic key organisms.

But this does not mean that the oil industry can forge ahead without restraint in these waters, because they also harbour key organisms lower down the food chain from fish.

Laboratory and field perturbation experiments focus on key organisms in terms of their ecological, biogeochemical, or socioeconomic importance.

Richard is particularly interested in understanding how the marine biosphere and key organism traits, such as body size, responded to the major climatic and environmental changes of the past, particularly those associated with the key extinction and warming episodes of the Phanerozoic.

It is also a difficult area of zoology because many of the key organisms are unfamiliar ones, but in this book the subject is dealt with very clearly.

Key organisms are selected on the basis of their ecological, biogeochemical or socio - economic importance.

A global research team has built five new synthetic yeast chromosomes, meaning that 30 percent of a key organism's genetic material has now been swapped out for engineered replacements.

Moreover the key organisms and the dynamics between them is poorly understood at best.