Sentences with phrase «microscopic sea plants»

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

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.

«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.»

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.

«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,» adds co-chief scientist Gerald Dickens.

It concentrates on the ocean's microscopic phytoplankton, describing how these tiny green plants supply half the planet's oxygen and form an essential part of the sea's food chains.

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.