Sentences with phrase «ocean organisms like»

In some areas, the heat build - up is forming a dense layer of oxygen - poor surface water, which affects ocean organisms like plankton.

In some areas, the heat build - up is forming a dense layer of oxygen - poor surface water, which affects ocean organisms like plankton.

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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 most frigid polar regions and the darkest depths of the ocean are home for a few organisms that like a good chill.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

We recommend the pyrosomes, giant transparent organisms that shine «like white hot cylinders» in the ocean, in the words of 19th century biologist Thomas Huxley.

Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.

Grassle thought it was a splendid idea, as long as it didn't get diverted into something strictly utilitarian — a census of seafood — and as long as it included all the other things that lived in the ocean, including obscure but biologically important organisms like polychaetes.

A new study affirms a long - controversial view that some organisms, like this Grand Cayman blue - throated anole, may have crossed oceans in creative ways.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

Fulmars, like other organisms dependent on the ocean for food, often inadvertently consume plastic.

After studying how quickly Europa's surface ice was replenished, University of Arizona researcher Richard Greenberg estimated in 2009 that enough oxygen reaches the subterranean ocean to sustain 6.6 billion pounds of «microfauna» — more complex animal - like organisms.

In environments like Antarctica that seldom preserve foraminifera — tiny organisms whose shells are the gold standard for dating ocean sediments — researchers have relied on dating bulk organic matter.

While on present - day Earth the carbonate formation is dominantly through organic processes (various shell - forming marine organisms are happy to make use of the CO2 dissolved in the ocean), in the early Earth and, presumably, in other Earth - like planets with little or no life the same process can occur inorganically, but somewhat slower, in silicate rock weathering.

Titan is believed to have vast hydrocarbon oceans and rivers made of liquid methane at temperatures that would preclude the possibility of existence of Earth - like organisms.

If organisms adapt, their future reactions to ocean acidification might be different from what they are like today», says Prof. Thorsten Reusch.

Biologists were surprised to discover that the ecosystems found on the ocean floor along these mid-ocean ridges, consisting of complex organisms like tube worms, clams, and crabs, were dependent for their food on thermophilic chemosynthetic bacteria, which produced organic compounds using the oxidation of inorganic molecules as an energy source, instead of sunlight.

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).

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

Presenting large - scale installations that resemble elements of nature under a microscope and cell - like forms or organisms from the depths of the ocean, Donovan's body of work derives from recognisable everyday items, such as Scotch Tape, drinking straws, paper - plates, needles, plastic rods and toothpicks.

Their weird creations, usually part - design and part - sculpture, look like organisms found on the bottom of the ocean, or perhaps ancillary Dr. Seuss characters — sometimes a combination thereof.

Making up 50 to 60 percent of the ocean's fish - mass and serving as food for other fishes like tuna, mahi mahi and squid, to name a few, the ingestion of plastic by this organism is dangerous on two fronts.

So there is the first bit of information: If you do not believe that the climate is warming on a global scale then in terms of evolution you are less knowledgeable about your environment (less intelligent) then the great majority of animals, plants, insects, and even ocean dwelling single celled organisms like plankton.

Plant growth on land fluctuates with the seasons; so does the blooming of phytoplankton — tiny plant - like organisms in the oceans.

Furthermore, the findings might not just apply to organisms like krill in the upper kilometer of the ocean, but also to jellyfish, squid, fish, and mammals that swim even deeper, potentially churning the entire water column.

Calcium forming organisms like shellfish, snails and microscopic plankton, which are at the base of the food chain, react sensitively to ocean acidification.

The rare Manhattan - sized icebergs, which may become more frequent in coming decades because of climate change, release a vast trail of iron and other nutrients that act as fertilisers for algae and other tiny plant - like organisms in the ocean.

Of far greater concern than corals in particular is the ocean food chain in general, because while acidification will probably result in more oceanic dead zones as the amount of CO2 goes up and the amount of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals).

as it was previously said here, it won't prevent acidification of oceans but such molecules like sulphates are known to provoke acidic rains, and even atmospheric pollution for some sensitive organisms like lichens.

The chemical makeup of the shells of these organisms acts like a time capsule of the environmental conditions they lived in, as changes in the isotopes in their shells paints a picture of the changing pH levels of the ocean.