Sentences with phrase «like plankton»

In some areas, the heat build - up is forming a dense layer of oxygen - poor surface water, which affects ocean organisms like plankton.

So there is the first bit of information: If you do not believe that the climate is warming on a global scale then in terms of evolution you are less knowledgeable about your environment (less intelligent) then the great majority of animals, plants, insects, and even ocean dwelling single celled organisms like plankton.

Scientists said the $ 952 million program, planned to last six years, should also help in understanding biological systems dependent upon water, like plankton in oceans and vegetation on land.

March 14, 2018 New studies detail the design and deployment of biodegradable ocean drifter for large - scale sampling experiments MIAMI — Studying small - scale ocean currents is important to understand how pollutants like oil and micro-plastics, or tiny sea creatures like plankton, travel in the world's oceans.

In some areas, the heat build - up is forming a dense layer of oxygen - poor surface water, which affects ocean organisms like plankton.

But invisible changes may be the most threatening to human food sources, beginning with the tiny species like plankton that inhabit the bottom of the oceans» food chain.

It didn't take long for her to confirm that the flashing was not, as most people assumed, a form of bioluminescence — a chemical reaction inside animals like plankton that produces light similar to that of a glow stick.

The algae and its marine snow aggregates can serve as a major food source for other forms of marine life like plankton - eating fish and shellfish.

Favourites get their ars * s kissed and bottom of the pile get treated like plankton.

Not exact matches

That may explain in part why a plankton - eater like a blue whale can have lower levels of PCBs than beluga whales: The belugas are higher up on the food chain.

They're sort of like an Internet beneath the Internet, digital plankton.

If so, their demise may have opened up the seas to modern plankton - feeders like the huge baleen whales.

According to Shimada, one pair of bones called hyomandibulae formed a massive oar - shaped lever to protrude and swing the jaws open extra wide, like a parachute, in order to receive more plankton - rich water into its mouth, similar to the way many sharks open their mouth.

Between 1963 to 1983, the team discovered skyrocketing levels of the plankton that cod fry like to eat.

And in addition to temperature, other physical factors like available light and even large - scale ocean — atmosphere interactions like the El Niño — La Niña oscillation can affect plankton behavior.

Sea life can get sucked into desalination plants, killing small ocean creatures like baby fish and plankton, upsetting the food chain.

That's why hydrates, like oil — and like fish — tend to be found along the world's coastlines, where the waters are rich in nutrients and plankton corpses fall like thick snow to the seafloor.

The funnel - like net, originally designed to study plankton, collects microfibers and other materials in the water while being towed behind a boat.

But he says there is also a biological component: «When you mix like that, you bring more nutrients» to organisms living in the area, he says, such as plankton and corals.

In places like the North Atlantic, where plankton bloom lushly in the spring, oceanographers find patches of green stuff on the ocean bed, a mile or two below.

«Human - like «eye» in single - celled plankton: Mitochondria, plastids evolved together.»

That doesn't bode well for sea creatures like oysters, corals and plankton that grow hard shells made of a chalky mineral called calcium carbonate.

Scientists have peered into the eye - like structure of single - celled marine plankton called warnowiids and found it contains many of the components of a complex eye.

They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.

Taken together, these organisms weigh approximately 10 billion tons and are a major link in the food chain between microscopic plankton and top predators like tuna, birds and marine mammals, according to Simone Baumann - Pickering, an assistant research biologist at the University of California, in San Diego.

My guess would be a vast bloom of plants possibly algea or photosynthetic plankton or something like this.

Ocean Plastic Will Be Found in 99 Percent of Seabirds by 2050 Plastic pollution in the ocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant whales.

Plastic pollution in the ocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant whales.

Like most algaes and seaweeds, plankton deeply hydrates the skin, making it an excellent humectant in this formula.

Jellyfish are plankton made up of a gelatinous, jelly - like substance.

And I can see they also have no teeth — just rows of harmless, internal, radiator - like gills sucking in clouds of twinkling plankton.

7) Snorkeling at night lets the visitor see bioluminescent plankton and nocturnal animals like octopi and eels.

Baleen whales completely lack teeth and filter small prey such as plankton, worms, and baitfish from the water using rows of baleen arranged in their mouths like sieves.

One of the most spectacular sights on a night trip in the Gulf of Nicoya is to witness hundreds of tiny star - like bioluminescent plankton scintillating like a starry sky as you move through dark water.

With each stroke, phosphorescent plankton gave the illusion of molten metal dripping off their paddles and swirling by the boats like a million underwater camera flashes.

We will shut off our lights and show you the how the plankton illuminates creating «Peter Pan» like sparkles all around you underwater!

I would like to know if anyone is working on using ocean plankton to mitigate Climate Change using Emiliania huxleyi?

But although plankton (in its original state) is a natural selfsustaining and rapid groing one - more - cell sea - organisms, an extreme amount of it will cause a babyboom amongst plankton - eating sealife like many whales.

The plankton that demonstrated this unexpected ability are certain coccolithopores, single - celled plants that are sheathed in Frisbee - like plates rich in calcium.

Adding iron to the ocean can cause a plankton bloom that will consume other nutrients like phosphate that could have been used later in a different place by other plankton.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Rather like a pump, plankton transport gases and nutrients from the ocean surface to the deep.

I am looking forward to the new satellite data which will be able to measure at ground level and find sources (like fires and volcanoes and geothermal vents, and nigh respiration, and cows and cities and...) and sinks (like forests and plankton etc).

Those chalk deposits were the result of sinking plankton that produced calcium carbonate shells like foraminifera and coccolithophorids, As discussed in Natural Cycles of Ocean Acidification, the creation of calcium carbonate shells pumps alkalinity to depth but produces CO2 at the surface thus adding to higher concentrations of atmospheric CO2.

Since the mid 1990's, Arctic sea ice has been behaving more like Antarctic sea ice and that has been good news for plankton, cod, seals, and bears.

(c) plankton can operate like a network where some species may specialize in gathering iron (but no one knows that for sure).

Calcium forming organisms like shellfish, snails and microscopic plankton, which are at the base of the food chain, react sensitively to ocean acidification.

«Changes in basal melting are helping to change the properties of Antarctic bottom water, which is one component of the ocean's overturning circulation,» said author Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. «In some areas it also impacts ecosystems by driving coastal upwelling, which brings up micronutrients like iron that fuel persistent plankton blooms in the summer.»

like maize, sugar cane, sorghum, pineapple, orchids, cacti, sedums, marine diatoms (about 40 % of plankton by contribution to photosynthesis)..

Of far greater concern than corals in particular is the ocean food chain in general, because while acidification will probably result in more oceanic dead zones as the amount of CO2 goes up and the amount of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals).