Sentences with phrase «microscopic plant»

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.

There, these elements stimulate microscopic plant production, which draws carbon dioxide into the water to aid in plant growth.

The Nature paper suggests that microscopic plant growth in coastal areas, fueled by fertilizer runoff, is now leading to greater uptake of CO2.

The archaeologists analysed 16 samples of microscopic plant remains from ten different time periods found during excavations during 2014 led by the University of São Paulo in South West Amazonia.

The 18 winning entries announced Thursday include a biolfilm imaging technigue that conveys the growth of bacteria; a photograph of micro-scale flows produced by reef - building corals; and a photo of microscopic plant hairs.

Birds are known to transport seeds internally and externally, but scientists had not linked them to the long - distance dispersal of microscopic plant spores, called diaspores.

The next step for the model, she said, is to try to determine which individual species of phytoplankton will bloom where, based on nutrient amounts, temperatures and other factors — using satellites and other tools to determine which kind of microscopic plant is where.

Ajit Subramaniam is a Columbia University professor who tracks microscopic plant life in the ocean.

Satellites can track those microscopic plants by watching how the colors of the sea surface change.

A long - standing puzzle in ocean photosynthesis was why phytoplankton failed to grow fast in parts of the Pacific Ocean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling water.

The decline in phosphorus is expected to reduce the abundance of phytoplankton (microscopic plants) and fish that feed on them, species that make up 40 percent of commercial fish yield.

Cores taken from under the open ocean are often stained green from microscopic plants called diatoms that settle to the seafloor after dying, but this core contained none.

For example, a lack of iron limits the growth of microscopic plants in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and elsewhere, a fact that prompted marine biologist John Martin to famously muse: «Give me half a tanker of iron, and I'll give you the next ice age.»

Closed vats might produce pure strains of such high - oil species for feeding into large ponds to grow sufficient supplies, says systems engineer Ron Pate at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, who has been analyzing the fuel potential of microscopic plants.

Coral bleaching happens when sea temperatures rise, causing the breakdown of the symbiosis between coral and their zooxanthellae (the microscopic plants which gives coral most of its colour), which can be fatal for the coral.

While algae and other microscopic plants, which form the base of the marine food chain, are vital to a healthy ecosystem, too much can cause murky water, reduce sunlight and oxygen levels, and ultimately cause harm to marine life.

In many parts of the ocean the productivity of phytoplankton — microscopic plants at the base of the marine food chain — is limited by the availability of dissolved iron.

Half of my post about desmids — intricate, microscopic plants — vanished within an hour or so of publication.

Blooms of phytoplankton, or microscopic plants, had decreased by 12 per cent in the past 30 years, and the size of the cells had also shrunk.

Even if you lock yourself in the house, the microscopic plants can still get inside and end up irritating you.

It's full of millions of items, ranging from massive skeletons to microscopic plants, each needing to be appropriately catalogued and stored for reference by researchers.

From giant fossils to microscopic plants, get a behind - the - scenes look at the incredible archives of the Smithsonian.

The rate of accumulation depends on how much CO2 mankind emits and how much of this excess CO2 is absorbed by plants and soil or is transported down into the ocean depths by plankton (microscopic plants and animals).

Then, by analysing the sediments for chemical fossils made by certain microscopic plants that live in sea ice and the surrounding oceans, Knies and his co-workers were able to fingerprint the environmental conditions as they changed through time.

Also common are water - borne pathogens, such as bacteria, and microscopic plants and animals.

Not exact matches

Description: Nematodes are microscopic worms that feed on the plant roots.

The laboratories best accomplish soil testing, microscopic tissue examininations, and plant disease organism culturing.

Bacterium effective when dusted on plants — The successful agent for destroying pesty insects, the microscopic bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, is most effective when it is dusted onto tobacco or other plants....

The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

The newfound role of the soil microbiome — the collection of microscopic bacteria, fungi and archaea that interact with plant roots — represents a turning point for research aimed at understanding and predicting where important tree species will reside in the future.

Specifically, after the analysis involving microscopic techniques and virtual models developed by the UA researcher, carious lesions caused by carbohydrates, present in plants, were found in the dental remains discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits site in Los Angeles, California, described by Alejandro Romero as «one of the most paradigmatic sites to study fossil mammals from the Pleistocene in North America.»

Biological oceanographer Kendra Daly of the University of South Florida heard a talk by Delaney and excitedly told him that his concept would finally allow researchers to study the ephemeral changes that were so difficult to capture from a ship: a storm churning up the waters below, for instance, or the springtime bloom of microscopic marine plants.

The team used stable isotope labels to trace plant litter - derived carbon and nitrogen as the litter decomposed and formed soil, specifically the fraction of soil called organic matter, which comes from plant inputs and microscopic animals.

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

SeaWiFS, on board the OrbView 2 (aka SeaStar) satellite measures the wavelengths of light reflected by phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants) and algae that use chlorophyll for photosynthesis.

Experiments show that microscopic ocean plants and animals — the base of the food chain — will be impacted

Microscopic roundworms (nematodes) live like maggots in bacon: They penetrate into the roots of beets, potatoes or soybeans and feed on plant cells, which are full of energy.

Saharan sand carries nitrogen, phosphorus and iron — delicious and essential treats for phytoplankton, which are microscopic ocean plants.

Their carcasses are then ground up by a microscopic disassembly line: a chain of insect larvae that thrive in the pitcher pool, cooperating to feed themselves — and the plant.

«The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past.»

Much like humans, whose guts and skin are teeming with microbes, the soil below plants and trees contains a unique cornucopia of microscopic creatures that help the tree take in nutrients and water.

In 1996, soil microbiologist Sara Wright of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, found that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi — a type of microscopic fungus that lives symbiotically with plant roots — oozes a sticky protein called glomalin.

There, the native plants» prosperity depends in a large part on microscopic organisms called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

The fungi send out long microscopic threads called hyphae that create a subterranean network enabling plants to exchange nutrients.

The microscopic particles sifting from freeways and power plants don't just harm your heart and lungs.

The patented technique uses microscopic crystals of silicon carbide to punch holes in plant cells so that foreign DNA can enter.

Life is the dominant source of the molecular oxygen on our planet, as the gas is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microscopic, single - cell organisms.

At least twenty - five plants and animals observed during the survey are new records for Penang or peninsular Malaysia, including the Sunda colugo or flying lemur, the red giant flying squirrel, the long - tailed giant rat, the Indomalayan niviventer, the lesser mouse deer, and species of ground squirrels, birds, bacteria, bats, ants, orchids, flies, frogs, mosquitoes, and microscopic water bears.

Metabarcoding resulted in higher sensitivity and resolution, and identified twice as many plant families than microscopic analysis of the same pollen samples.

Nor, researchers thought, can any other eukaryotes — the group of organisms we belong to along with other animals, plants, fungi, and various microscopic creatures.