Sentences with phrase «microscopic ocean organisms»
«Ancient marine algae provides clues of climate change impact on today's microscopic ocean organisms.»
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Organisms that surprisingly survived the harsh 7,000 - kilometer journey across the Pacific Ocean on 634 items of tsunami debris ranged from 52 - centimeter - long fish (a Western Pacific yellowtail amberjack) to microscopic single - celled protists.
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.
The scientists also studied how environmental factors — such as temperature, water pH, and nutrients — influence the microscopic organisms floating in the ocean.
Now researchers at MIT and Bristol University in the United Kingdom have found that these microscopic, mixotrophic organisms may have a large impact on the ocean's food web and the global carbon cycle.
The 2.52 billion - year - old sulfur - oxidizing bacteria are described by Czaja as exceptionally large, spherical - shaped, smooth - walled microscopic structures much larger than most modern bacteria, but similar to some modern single - celled organisms that live in deepwater sulfur - rich ocean settings today, where even now there are almost no traces of oxygen.
On one two - page spread in Ocean Sunlight, we illustrate the concept of how quickly phytoplankton reproduces by including a series of circles increasing in size, each with a close - up view of these microscopic organisms.
Growing evidence suggests that ocean acidification will strongly impact many types of marine organisms, from microscopic plankton to shellfish and corals.
Calcium forming organisms like shellfish, snails and microscopic plankton, which are at the base of the food chain, react sensitively to ocean acidification.
As of 2010, the global population of phytoplankton, the microscopic organisms that form the basis of the ocean's food web, has fallen by about 40 per cent since 1950.
As if rising sea levels aren't enough to worry about, U.S. Geological Survey scientists say melting glaciers may also adding significant amounts of carbon to the oceans, where it's readily available to microscopic organisms at the base of the food chain.