Sentences with phrase «marine carbon cycle»

«If we can understand what the sources are we can better infer what's happening in terms of some elements of the marine carbon cycle.»

«We are still at the beginning of understanding the marine carbon cycle,» said Michael Gonsior, a chemist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes.

The 200 coccolithophore species produce up to ten per cent of the biomass in the oceans and keep the marine carbon cycle running.

The month - long sea campaign across the Pacific on the research vessel Falkor will monitor the diversity of oceanic phytoplankton, microscopic plant - like organisms, and their impact on the marine carbon cycle.

It will take centuries or millenia for the ocean to approach a new equilibrium and a thermal anomaly to penetrate marine sediments, but the resulting effects upon the marine carbon cycle could be catastrophic.

Variability in the marine carbon cycle has been observed in response to physical changes associated with the dominant modes of climate variability such as El Niño events and the PDO (Feely et al., 1999; Takahashi et al., 2006), and the NAO (Bates et al., 2002; Johnson and Gruber, 2007).

The box on «The Carbon Cycle Orrery» is particularly helpful, providing an imagined physical model of vessels and interconnecting tubes that helps the learner visualize how the moving parts of the the marine carbon cycle work together.

The reduction of phosphate - rich ribosomes2 in warmer oceans will tend to produce higher organismal nitrogen (N) to phosphate (P) ratios, in turn increasing demand for N with consequences for the marine carbon cycle due to shifts towards N - limitation.