Sentences with phrase «microscopic marine organisms»

To answer this question, the researchers analyzed marine sediment cores collected off Galicia (Spain) and from the Bay of Biscay, containing pollen and foraminifera, microscopic marine organisms with calcareous skeletons.

Today is the birthday of Victor Hensen, a German physiologist born in 1835, who made his mark studying a teeming array of itinerant microscopic marine organisms.

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In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after the catastrophic asteroid impact in an immense upheaval of the world's oceans, yet deep sea creatures managed to survive.

A single plastic carrier bag could be shredded by marine organisms into around 1.75 million microscopic fragments, according to new research.

«Ancient marine algae provides clues of climate change impact on today's microscopic ocean organisms.»

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.

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.

Growing evidence suggests that ocean acidification will strongly impact many types of marine organisms, from microscopic plankton to shellfish and corals.

Most Antarctic marine organisms, from microscopic phytoplankton to the Adélie penguin, depend on sea ice to live and reproduce.

Algae - Photosynthetic, often microscopic and planktonic, organisms occurring in marine and freshwater ecosystems.