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probably more plankton....

It is also worth noting that although the diving is good during peak season, at this time warm water brings more plankton and reduces visibility.

a) Satellite image showing fast disintegration of sea ice over a polar continental shelf; b) Zoobenthos on an Antarctic continental shelf; c) Examples of sea mosses (specimens on the left are from an open - water location and hence have had more plankton to feed on); and d) Dead bryozoan and other benthic skeletons covering the seabed, most likely to be buried, sequestering their blue carbon in the seabed.

Though technically considered a temperate species, the whales are spending more time in Arctic waters each summer because there is more plankton and a longer period without sea ice.

According to Shimada, one pair of bones called hyomandibulae formed a massive oar - shaped lever to protrude and swing the jaws open extra wide, like a parachute, in order to receive more plankton - rich water into its mouth, similar to the way many sharks open their mouth.

Not exact matches

With more plastic than plankton at the center of the seas, marine life is consuming this waste.

Juveniles lose the bright, plankton - filtering gills seen on this individual when they mature and descend into some of the deepest depths of any known fish, often more than 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) beneath the ocean surface.

Plankton may absorb more of the CO2 causing climate change than previously thought, according to new research

«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.

Friedman subsequently reexamined dusty museum archives and found neglected fossils showing that similar gape - mouthed, plankton - eating fish had thrived all over the world for more than 100 million years.

Despite the size of the bloom, however, the plankton did not take in a record - breaking amount of carbon dioxide — only about 20 % more carbon than that part of the ocean sequesters biologically each year.

Dukes found that in a single year, 1997, the human population burned the equivalent of more than 400 times the total plant matter grown that year throughout the world, including oceanic plankton.

The eruption in Iceland naturally fertilized the ocean but failed to prod plankton to suck up much more carbon dioxide

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

The old houses, often more than a meter across, sink toward the ocean bottom carrying with them plankton and other biological tidbits snagged in their goo.

Less plankton means more light can penetrate, causing aquatic plants to grow unchecked and further clogging waterways.

More fresh water in the surface water layers makes it harder for the nutrient - rich bottom water to rise to the upper layers where the sunlight ensures the production of plankton algae in summer.

AS THE world's fisheries ministers promised tough action to conserve the oceans» fast - diminishing fish stocks last week, researchers were providing still more evidence of a crisis that threatens everything from plankton to porpoises.

«Since the microbial community is a critical part of a food web, global warming will have direct impacts on organisms feeding on plankton... What exactly and how large this impact will be will require more data to understand.»

Gipsi Lima - Mendez of the University of Leuven in Belgium, and a senior author on another study in the Tara package, and colleagues developed a map of more than 90,000 plankton species interactions.

«Plankton are much more than just food for the whales,» said Chris Bowler, a co-author on all five Science papers and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Looking at strains of the plankton under varying CO2 levels, researchers found that while some plankton had difficulties forming their shells when the water was more acidic, others did not, causing researchers to speculate that the plankton might be able to use another form of calcium to substitute in shell making.

These more substantial organisms, compared to smaller and lighter plankton, were more capable of sinking to the ocean floor, as carbon - containing detritus.

But in the oceans, the more people have looked at plankton, the more mixotrophy seems to be common.»

It is an American book and inevitably many examples, particularly of intertidal ecology, are from the American Atlantic and Pacific coasts, but in this edition Nybakken includes more material from elsewhere, and many topics, plankton biology and deep sea biology, for example, are global in their scope.

Stout infantfish were captured in a plankton net on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia by a field researcher in 1979, then overlooked for more than two decades until H. J. Walker, a senior museum scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and William Watson of the National Marine Fisheries Service, realized they were an unknown species.

But he says there is also a biological component: «When you mix like that, you bring more nutrients» to organisms living in the area, he says, such as plankton and corals.

Warm - water species, such as leaner plankton species often associated with subtropical waters, have lingered in these more - northern zones.

While the cooling conditions off the West Coast began to support more cold - water plankton rich in the fatty acids that salmon need to grow, salmon may need more time to show the benefits, the report said.

The same mechanism would likely also mobilize and deliver more nutrients, carbon, and other chemicals into the Arctic Ocean, fueling the growth of plankton at the bottom of the food chain.

They're able to do so thanks to the larger surface area of their wings, which enables them to ride the prevailing winds, often at altitudes of more than 1000 km, while dining on aerial plankton and small insects.

This is a blow to some supporters of geo - engineering, who have suggested that one way to tackle climate change is large - scale seeding of the oceans with iron to stimulate plankton to absorb more carbon dioxide.

As seawater becomes more acidic, it dissolves carbonate minerals, which many plankton require to build their shells.

After being absorbed by plankton, the mercury moves up the food chain: The plankton is eaten by small fish, which are then gobbled up by larger predators, each bigger animal accumulating more mercury with every meal.

Ammonites, which were free - swimming molluscs of the ancient oceans and are common fossils, went extinct at the time of the end - Cretaceous asteroid impact, as did more than 90 per cent of species of calcium carbonate - shelled plankton (coccolithophores and foraminifera).

Pico - and Nanophytoplankton grow more strongly under these conditions — consuming nutrients that larger photosynthesizing plankton such as about diatoms would have used.

Combining RPO and radiocarbon dating, scientists can link the most - heat - reactive organic matter to the youngest carbon dates, thereby obtaining more accurate sediment ages, which correspond to the ages of surface water plankton in the sediments.

That would, I'd guess, be interesting as a very fast feedback effect if, say, plankton's changing year by year as one or more of those other signals change.

RE # 39 (sorry for being off - topic), there are still more threats to plankton from GW, according to a NATURE article just out («Decline of the marine ecosystem caused by a reduction in the Atlantic overturning circulation,» Schmittner, Vol 434 No 7033, Mar 31, p. 628): If the Atlantic ocean conveyor is disrupted due to freshwater entering, then the nutrients for plankton will not be churned up, perhaps reducing plankton by half.

In this BIOACID Science Portrait, Ulf Riebesell tells you how the KOSMOS mesocosms, «giant test tubes», help researchers to find out more about the reactions of plankton communities to ocean acidification — and what these field experiments mean to him.

We know that acidification of the ocean makes it more difficult for some plankton to make shells.

The researchers discovered that the charr have split into two phenotypes - a large «robust» charr that feeds on benthic zooplankton, and a smaller more «delicate» form, which predominately feeds on plankton.

Over at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, scientists are working on a more mobile platform for monitoring plankton: the Wave Glider.

Chester Finn has more listings on his C.V. than there are plankton sucked into the megamouth of a feeding whale shark.

More and more species are being spawned and reared in captivity, and plankton - capture is turning out to be a way to gain access to species that, thus far, have defied all attempts at captive breedMore and more species are being spawned and reared in captivity, and plankton - capture is turning out to be a way to gain access to species that, thus far, have defied all attempts at captive breedmore species are being spawned and reared in captivity, and plankton - capture is turning out to be a way to gain access to species that, thus far, have defied all attempts at captive breeding.

Made with real plankton and blue - green spirulina chunks; the Plankton Banquet Block is an excellent daily food source for bottom feeders such as Plecostomus, algae eaters, redtail sharks, Gouramis, saltwater tangs, angels and damsels aplankton and blue - green spirulina chunks; the Plankton Banquet Block is an excellent daily food source for bottom feeders such as Plecostomus, algae eaters, redtail sharks, Gouramis, saltwater tangs, angels and damsels aPlankton Banquet Block is an excellent daily food source for bottom feeders such as Plecostomus, algae eaters, redtail sharks, Gouramis, saltwater tangs, angels and damsels and more.

What's more, Monterey Bay's unique geology produces an area of relatively calm bay waters, where, according to Dr. Griggs, «plankton, small fish, seabirds, whales, and dolphins congregate to share in the food.»

There are several dive spots with depths ranging from 40 ft. to more than 100 ft. Visibility depends upon the levels of plankton and nutrients.

Visibility variation is less seasonal and more associated with plankton blooms which occur frequently, especially around full moon, and bring in the big fish.

The plankton and krill will recover, taking more methane and CO2 out of the surface ocean waters.