Sentences with phrase «marine food»

Ultimately, it could disrupt the entire marine food chain.
Typical restaurants consist of marine food and outdoor bars for those who are looking for some daytime and evening entertainment.
They found that plankton, the basis of marine food webs, might react to warming in a predictable way.
The krill, for instance, a very important link in marine food chain, feed on phytoplankton and in turn gets eaten by other organisms in the sea such as fish.
Huge dams are affecting water cycle and bio-regions, pursseine trawlers are affecting marine food chains, both are destroying livelihood of people based on community control of resources.
For instance, they churn up ocean sediments and release nutrients that fuel the entire marine food web.
«This can help us determine mechanisms that influence species composition in planktonic communities exposed to red tides, and suggests that these chemical cues could alter large - scale ecosystem phenomena, such as the funneling of material and energy through marine food webs.»
Bite - size pieces of plastic chipped from wave - battered consumer products work their way up marine food chains, suggest researchers examining fur seals in Australia.
The seasonal sea temperature changes caused by the summer Monsoon and rich marine food supplies (Sardines & Euphasids) enables both breeding and feeding within the same body of water.
In addition to altering marine food webs, iron fertilization could produce greenhouse gases more potent than carbon dioxide, such as nitrous oxide and methane, or block sunlight needed by deep coral reefs.
The researchers constructed marine food webs based on plants which use sunlight and nutrients to grow (algae), small invertebrates that graze on the plants (such as shrimp), and fish that in turn prey on small invertebrates.
But in the world of marine microbial ecology, there are very few model systems and associated tools that enable scientists to deeply explore the physiology, biochemistry, and ecology of marine microbes, which drive the ocean's elemental cycles, influence greenhouse gas levels, and support marine food webs.
Dr. Wood approached this question using fished marine food webs as model systems.
DHA and EPA are found in high amounts in marine foods like fatty fish, krill oil and fish oil supplements.
Schematic representation of the Canadian arctic marine food web, with a transition from coastal to oceanic ecosystem (left to right)
The proliferation of algae and dinoflagellates during these warming events could increase the number of people affected by toxins (such as ciguatera) due to the consumption of marine food sources (Union des Comores, 2002; see also Chapter 16, Section 16.4.5).
«However, when I searched for new research on evidence of use of marine food by early humans, I noticed that over and over, the traces of it, shells, were accompanied by ochre.
When pesticides are incorporated into the marine ecosystem, they quickly become absorbed into marine food webs.
Materials derived primarily from renewable sources such as replenishable agricultural feed stocks, animal sources, marine food processing industry wastes, or microbial sources, and can break down to produce environmentally friendly products such as carbon dioxide, water, and quality compost.
Large, permanent settlements depending substantially on wild plants and marine food materialized in Mesopotamia well before agricultural states formed there.
«When we eat fish or other marine foods, we incorporate carbon into our bones that is much older than in terrestrial foods.
«So the contamination of long - lived radionuclides in different organisms in the local marine food webs needs to be monitored continually.»
Determining how such departures and arrivals influence complicated marine food webs will be difficult work, she says, involving laborious field surveys and careful counts of jellyfish stomach contents.
«Global fisheries to be, on average, 20 percent less productive in 2300, UCI study finds: Warming - induced plankton growth near Antarctica will impair marine food chain.»
Global warming is increasing ocean temperatures and harming marine food webs.
That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that rebounding populations of baleen and sperm whales may be boosting marine food webs around the world.
Morris has widened his research to include marine food chains and is also studying the effects of a range of organic flame retardants on the same terrestrial food chain.
Unicellular photosynthetic microbes — phytoplankton — are responsible for virtually all oceanic primary production, which fuels marine food webs and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle.
Reduced ability to maintain a protective shell among free - swimming zooplankton (zooplankton include «animal plankton», mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae, and form the base of most marine food webs)
Plus this toxic soup disturbs marine food webs and ecosystems.
Robert: «Dolphins do very well on a very high long chain Omega 3 diet (eg marine food products) which suggests that high intake of Omega 3 per se is not detrimental.»
A few of my favorites are Skinfood's Marine Food Gel Sheet Mask, Whamisa's Organic Flowers & Aloe Vera Fermented Hydrogel Sheet Mask, and Etude House's 0.2 Aloe Therapy Air Mask, all of which are ultra-affordable and contain a blend of highly concentrated, skin - soothing ingredients.
It is a paradise - like place which offers a good infrastructure, with tourist services, such as hotels, restaurants, discotheques, pubs, as well as sand, sun, beach, exquisite marine food and many friends.
Researchers have found a number of shell middens in the area and, based on the archaeological evidence, concluded the Ohlone's primary marine food consisted at various times of mussels and abalone.
This «kelp highway hypothesis» suggested that highly productive kelp forests supported rich and diverse marine food webs in nearshore waters, including many types of fish, shellfish, birds, marine mammals, and seaweeds that were similar from Japan to California, Erlandson and his colleagues also argued that coastal kelp forests reduced wave energy and provided a linear dispersal corridor entirely at sea level, with few obstacles to maritime peoples.
Marine food resources would be depleted by ocean acidification.
Molecular dating and stable isotope analyses also show that by very early in their evolutionary history, polar bears were already inhabitants of the Artic sea ice and had adapted very rapidly to their current and unique ecology at the top of the Arctic marine food chain.
Commercial fishing and tourism both took hits; pre-spill levels of herring, a fish important for marine food chains and human consumption have yet to bounce back.
Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) causes pronounced shifts in marine carbonate chemistry and a decrease in seawater pH. Increasing evidence indicates that these changes — summarized by the term ocean acidification (OA)-- can significantly affect marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles.
Warming temperatures and changes in the sea ice matter for the entire marine food chain in this region where whales feed in the summer and large numbers of sea birds breed.
As warming starts to shake up marine food webs, ecologists say it may give an unexpected boost to some fisheries — but also make them more precarious.
«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.»
Half of phytoplankton species — the foundation of marine food chains — could be replaced by new species by 2100
In these shifting waters, marine microbes called Trichodesmium could falter in adding nitrogen, a critical input for marine food webs, says Dalin Shi of Xiamen University in China.
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