Sentences with phrase «ocean organisms called»

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At that time, there were lots of nutrients in the ocean water there, because small organisms called diatoms, which have silica shells, were able to thrive.

Great Barrier Reef Billions of minuscule marine organisms called coral polyps built this World Heritage Site; now warming oceans are slowly killing it.

In the April 12 issue of the journal Science, Lutz and co-author Paul Falkowski, a professor in Rutgers's departments of Geological Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, point out that the handful of samples taken thus far from the ocean's depths have introduced scientists to new strains of an anaerobic bacteria known as actinomycetes, which Lutz calls «fascinating organisms with profound medical possibilities.»

A well - known issue with LGM proxies is that the most abundant type of proxy data, using the species composition of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, probably underestimates sea surface cooling over vast stretches of the tropical oceans; other methods like alkenone and Mg / Ca ratios give colder temperatures (but aren't all coherent either).

Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days crawling around on a piece of nice wet moss in a forest, or meandering through our vast oceans.

Scientists call every organism «plankton» that is not able to swim against ocean currents, but drifts with them.

Acidifying the ocean is particularly detrimental to organisms that secrete shell material made of CaCO3, such as coral reefs and a type of phytoplankton called coccolithophorids [Kleypas et al., 1999].

With less mixing, respiration by organisms in the mid-water layers of stratified oceans will produce oxygen - poor waters, so - called oxygen minimum zones (OMZs).

The world's oceans act as a huge sponge for the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by human activities, but all of that extra CO2 increases the acidity in the waters, which can be harmful to the organisms that call the sea home.