Sentences with phrase «oceanic food chain»

The oceans absorb a significant amount of the carbon that enters the atmosphere, creating carbonic acid that makes it hard for marine life to survive and threatens the entire oceanic food chain.

The decimation of the shark population is a serious concern as it has a detrimental trickle - down effect for the entire oceanic food chain.

While the ocean remains largely a mystery waiting to be discovered, West Coast Natives and Founders of New Wave Foods Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf are tapping into the basis of the oceanic food chain...

Given that top predators feed on giant octopuses, this may be an important way of channelling energy from the bottom to the top of the oceanic food chain, his team argues.

Those shifts most likely stem from the copious quantities of carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel — fired power plants that are changing the climate and, thus, the tiny plants known as phytoplankton that serve as the base of the oceanic food chain.

Scientists have revealed a key cog in the biochemical machinery that allows marine algae at the base of the oceanic food chain to thrive.

This change in ocean chemistry can strip away the building blocks of coral reefs, weakening an important link in the oceanic food chain.

They serve as the base of the oceanic food chain and provide more than half of the oxygen we breathe.

We also know that phytoplankton, the base of the oceanic food chain, significantly effects atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, despite their decline.

Ocean acidification, the result of oceans absorbing excess carbon pollution from the air, could destabilize fisheries and much of the oceanic food chain.

But the broken - down particles of plastic, which pose a risk for the oceanic food chain, are too fine to remove by practicable filtration methods.

Would it be possible to have a Forum thread address the topic of AGW's assault on terrestial and oceanic food chains?