Sentences with phrase «many pelagic»

«Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration The rent is due, and a pelagic grief stretches far beyond what the eye can see.

While certain parts of the ocean may still be considered clean, this would only be suitable for endemic (rather than pelagic) species.

Come and learn about beautiful pelagic birds, and see if you might want to join the crew of seabird monitors she sends out every year to keep track of them!

She's dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms.

And if they need to get somewhere in a hurry, they can employ their funnels to jet away like their pelagic cousins, squid.

The localization of deformation onto a limited thickness (less than 5 meters) of pelagic clay is the defining characteristic of the shallow earthquake fault, suggesting that the pelagic clay may be a regionally important control on tsunamigenic earthquakes.

Not in any pelagic environment, in constrained coastal regions.

And not only include the pelagic and marine birds but coastal birds.

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Like other pelagic fishes (those that live in the open sea or in surface waters), many sharks travel far and wide.

Carefully designed marine reserves and a reduction in fishing, they write, «could hold promise for safeguarding sharks and other large pelagic predators from further declines and ecological extinction.»

Other beneficiaries include fish as ecosystems shift from a benthic focus (sea floor) to a pelagic one (water column).

By foraging for prey in deep pelagic waters often miles offshore, these mobile predators can act as vital «nutrient vectors» to shallow reefs.

In Europe, fishes with pelagic [open - water] life history did poorly in the presence of silver carp.»

In some areas their diet seems to have adapted to include squid, shrimp, and various fish, such as schooling pelagic fish, halibut, and redfish.

There is already evidence that many coral reef fish and pelagic fish, like tuna, have moved in response to warmer ocean waters.

To put Power Hub to the test, SEV and DONG Energy identified three industrial sites on the Faroe Islands that are major power consumers: HiddenFjord fish farm; a cold storage site called Bergfrost; and Kollafjord Pelagic, a fish processing facility.

The pelagic flounders could not have spawned successfully on the Finnish coast because they require higher salinity.

They find that fishing for large pelagic animals — species like tuna or swordfish — warms the climate, pound for pound, as much as raising pork.

Blanket octopuses are pelagic, never touching the sea floor, Norman explains, which makes it hard for males to find females in the open ocean.

Stanford University biologist Barbara Block and her colleagues on a census project called Tagging of Pacific Pelagics are using microchips and satellite transmitters to penetrate those secrets.

«People don't realize how much time boats are spending trawling around,» says Jennifer Burney, an environmental scientist at UC San Diego who was not a party to the study, and she's not surprised to see the high climate costs of crustaceans and large pelagic species.

«We find that the extinction event marked an ecological turning point for the pelagic marine vertebrates,» write the authors in the study.

These beasts tend to dine on fish found in coastal and pelagic waters and occasionally marine mammals such as dolphins and porpoises.

«Faster growth during the larval stage should lead to a survival advantage because they can develop sooner and get out of the dangerous pelagic environment faster,» he says.

Most marine fishes have a pelagic larval stage that drifts in the surface or near - surface currents of the ocean — an environment very different from the one they inhabit as adults.

But Richard Pyle, a researcher at Hawaii's Bishop Museum, said he and other scientists have concluded that the ecological interconnectedess of the region — including the fish larvae that are dispersed on currents, and the sharks and other pelagic fish that travel vast distances — extends beyond federal waters.

The effects of ocean acidification on a pelagic community and their impacts on food webs and biogeochemical cycles were studied in a long - term mesocosm experiment conducted in the Gullmar Fjord at the west coast of Sweden.

Radiation and speciation of pelagic organisms during periods of global warming: the case of the common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata.

Jellyfish and pelagic tunicates live on smaller plankton and thus consume organic carbon.

In consequence, the data available up to now are scarce and we are just starting to comprehend the fundamental properties that will allow us to better understand the role of jellyfish and pelagic tunicates in the global carbon cycle.»

He then went to Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, where he received a Master's of Science in Marine Science by studying the role of the pelagic microbial loop in the diet of Antarctic sponges.

Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes.

«We documented for first time marked changes in the pelagic food web length in response to various natural and anthropogenic related stressors,» said lead author Rocio I. Ruiz - Cooley, formerly of NOAA Fisheries» Southwest Fisheries Science Center and now at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Their latest article in the international magazine «Limnology and Oceanography» describes for the first time the sinking speed of organic remains from jellyfish and pelagic tunicates.

We thank the Norwegian Research Council for awarding funding to A.K. Sweetman, L.A. Levin, A.R. Thurber and C.R. Smith to run the workshop «CLIDEEP — Workshop to explore the impacts of climate change on deep - sea pelagic and benthic ecosystems» (NFR grant No. 216598) at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, where the foundations for this paper were laid.

The researchers found that fisheries for small pelagic Read more about Beef, lamb, lobster or fish?

Citation: Rocio I. Ruiz - Cooley, Tim Gerrodette, Paul C. Fiedler, Susan J. Chivers, Kerri Danil and Lisa T. Ballance; Temporal variation in pelagic food chain length in response to environmental change; Science Advances, 2017; 3 (10): e1701140; DOI: 10.1126 / sciadv.1701140.

Phytoplankton production and light response; analytical and numerical modeling of primary production and pelagic ecosystems; bio-optical oceanography; phytoplankton physiology; carbon dioxide flux at the air / sea interface.

Great Auk Called «the penguin of the north,» these flightless pelagic birds thrived throughout the north Atlantic ocean, but their restriction to a few crowded islands for breeding made them vulnerable to exploitation by humans that reached industrial scale.

The plankton, in turn, attracts a vast array of marine life, providing feeding as well as spawning grounds for myriad pelagic species, including some that have migrated across wide oceanic areas.

«The area still has healthy shark populations, and released reef or pelagic fish will simply be fast food for sharks,» he cautions.

As reptiles with a significant pelagic component, marine turtles may resemble marine fisheries more than terrestrial populations.

«The Government's proposal to ban pelagic longlines — kilometer long fishing lines with hundreds of hooks — across two thirds of the Coral Sea Park is an important step forward.

In 2008 the predicted existence of a floating mass of pelagic plastic, a giant Garbage Patch, was confirmed in the stable waters of the North Atlantic gyre where plastic debris is accumulating over an area estimated to be twice the size of Texas.

It is one of the few places on Earth where large pelagic fishes (tuna, billfish and sharks) have not yet been severely depleted.

Genetic [17] and tracking [18], [19] studies have revealed pelagic hotspots where juvenile loggerheads congregate; foraging in oceanographic features that are productive and concentrate prey (Fig. 1c - d).

Marine Biologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, brings the story full circle, as technological advances have made pelagic fishing ruthlessly efficient.

[6] As with the other patches, the field constitutes an elevated level of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris; primarily particles that are invisible to the naked eye.

While the pelagic range covers an enormous span, breeding is restricted to only about seven principal areas, four of which are on coast of California.