Sentences with phrase «like terrestrial plants»

Phytoplankton consumes CO2, like terrestrial plants, and transfers this via zooplankton to marine organisms, hence indirectly promoting their growth.

Like terrestrial plants, phytoplankton contain light - absorbing chlorophyll and need sunlight to live and grow.

Not exact matches

Comprised of carbon and hydrogen, in closed growing environments, like on a spacecraft or in a terrestrial greenhouse or a land - base perishable cooler, ethylene builds up rapidly and causes plants to mature too quickly.

And much like humans, fish diets require omega - 3 fatty acids, not found in terrestrial plants.

Besides primitive plants, the Rhynie Chert has yielded of algal, fungi, and prokaryotic bacteria fossils as well as a diversity of early terrestrial arthropods such as Myriapods (millipedes and centipedes), Collembola, and Arachnids such as Opiliones (harvestmen), pseudoscorpions and the extinct, spider - like trigonotarbids.

Since the sea for seaweed is like the soil for terrestrial plants the seaweed will absorb what is in the water may it be good or bad.

Soil water is perhaps the most precious resource of the Earth because if it becomes destroyed or disappear there will be neither food nor water for terrestrial plants and animals like people.

The paper also cites a number of modelling and empirical papers that are of relevance to your questions, like Pagani, M., Caldeira, K., Berner, R. & Beerling, D. 2009 The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years.

The reason why it is energetically beneficial to couple a wastewater treatment plant to an algal growth facility is because algae, like terrestrial crops such as corn and soybeans, require nutrients as inputs.