Sentences with phrase «life in the ocean depends»

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

That may not seem like much until you know that 25 percent of all life in the ocean depends on coral reefs.

Not exact matches

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

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.

The creatures tune their vision to improve their sight, depending on how deeply they live in the ocean.

Although most life on the planet exists in the saltwater oceans, humans are particularly interested in the hydrosphere because it provides the fresh water we depend upon.

«It's a more complicated picture, but broadly it means that there are going to be winners and losers in the oceans as its chemistry is modified by human activities — this could have the effect of altering major ocean ecosystems on which both we and a large part of marine life depend.»

Up until this time, it was thought that organisms living in the deep sea depended on a constant «rain» of food from above, i.e. from the lighted regions of the ocean.

They either live mostly in the sea or, like polar bears, depend on the ocean for food.

On the other hand, that does not mean that you will be alone in the ocean of big system at all — the website always provides live support for all the users and visitors of the page not depending on their native language and similar factors.

While at the aquarium Tennessee Aquarium staff do their best to help educate visitors about the different animals throughout the aquarium as well as conservation efforts the aquarium participates in to set an example as to the importance of conserving ocean life and other animals which depend on the ocean.

There are varying details depending on what package you choose, but all of our packages include: — Welcome at the Nuqui airport — Speed boat transfer from the airport in Nuqui to El Cantil and back to the airport (travelling along the coast with life vests for each passenger — Lodging in comfortable rooms with private bathroom, beds with mosquito nets, built — in wardrobe, and a terrace with an ocean view — Guided walks to the Waterfall of Love and along the beach to Termales — All meals are included (we have an exquisite seafood menu)-- Hotel insurance — Souvenir — Taxes (IVA)

Plankton, the tiny organisms at the bottom of the ocean food chain that so much of marine life depends on, drift with the ocean currents, but sometimes come together in dense patches under the surface that can later rise to the surface as red tides.

But a single time scale just doesn't express the multi-compartment transfer rates — a fifth to a third of the CO2 remains in the atmosphere after even a 40 - year half - life of ocean equilibration (which quite frankly agrees with my numbers — I get about a back of the envelope number of ~ 37 years half - life, depending on the saturation limits), and the rest will be around for quite a while.

That is, life in the deep ocean depended on an annual delivery of fertilizer from one of the world's emptiest and most parched regions.

(AP)-- Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood.

Coral reefs are the richest ecosystems in the oceans, and 500 million people depend on the living coral and its co-dependants for food, tourist income and coastal protection.

In a domino effect, chain reaction, the death of the coral reefs will also be the death of the sea life that depend on the reef for survival, eventually killing the ocean which supplies about 85 percent of the oxygen in the earth's atmospherIn a domino effect, chain reaction, the death of the coral reefs will also be the death of the sea life that depend on the reef for survival, eventually killing the ocean which supplies about 85 percent of the oxygen in the earth's atmospherin the earth's atmosphere.