Sentences with phrase «of aquatic systems»

Terrestrial and atmospheric nutrient inputs, nutrient cycling and limitation, and primary production of aquatic systems.

The studies quantified how changes humans make to streams by withdrawing water impact the ecological health of aquatic systems.

The survey's three main authors, Manuel Lopes - Lima and Ronaldo Sousa from the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIMAR) and Professor Jürgen Geist / Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology at TUM, describe how crucial mussels are for aquatic ecosystems: they form around 90 percent of the biomass in the bed of a water body.

The idea for this came from findings obtained as a result of research on invasive gobies in the Danube, on which two doctoral theses had already been written at the Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology.

A former field study conducted by the Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology at the TUM demonstrates how serious the situation currently is for the native relatives of the invasive newcomer from the Black Sea region.

As the interdisciplinary team at the Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology discovered in their experiments, when faced with a choice between native amphipods and the killer shrimp they knew from their old homeland, they showed a clear preference for the «new flavor».

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She follows this account with scientific versions of the creation story, drawing from them a sense of the profound interdependence of atmospheric, aquatic and organic systems.

Approximately 13,000 ML of environmental water entitlements from the Barwon River near Collarenebri and the Darling River entitlements at Toorale remained in - stream and contributed to protecting and restoring ecosystem functions and aquatic habitats in the Barwon - Darling River system by supporting:

A flow event in Sept 2016 triggered access to Commonwealth allocations and a total 794 ML of Commonwealth environmental water contributed to in - stream flows, protecting and restoring ecosystem functions and aquatic habitats in the Warrego River system by supporting:

Farming in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) gives an opportunity for maximising farming conditions, reducing emissions of nutrients to the aquatic environment, reducing water consumption and for farming with a high level of bio-security.

The focus is still on scientific investigation and knowledge discovery of the chemical links between urban settings and aquatic systems.

Sánchez Alvarado's team and the Stowers aquatics facility developed a modified tank system that was capable of circulating and sanitizing the culture media so they could rear healthy worms, but they found that when they took the worms out of that system, they quickly got sick again.

Whether this effluent should be processed is contentious; the Supreme Court is set to hear a consolidation of cases about the Environmental Protection Agency's requirements that power plants retrofit their systems to minimize impact on local water supplies and aquatic life.

Loss of large bodied terrestrial and aquatic fauna may have had a huge impact on systems and suggests many trophic cascades that formerly arose fromtop predators have vanished.

As a senior scientist at the Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Muruganandam has been doing research on natural resource management and fisheries and aquatic system management, in particular, for more than 20 years.

Yet in addition to extinctions there are many dramatic, well - documented effects of introduced species, such as shifts in regional climate, reduced groundwater levels, altered nutrient cycling, and reduced oxygen levels in aquatic systems, which affect the abundance and distribution of native species.

IISD President Scott Vaughan tells ScienceInsider that he intends to build upon this past research, while looking to expand the scope of the facility's science to investigate the effects of micropollutants and climate change on aquatic systems.

One of the chemicals on EPA's list, atrazine, is a herbicide reported in aquatic and drinking water systems across the USA.

Sophia Passy studies the ecology of aquatic communities in systems ranging from laboratory streams to the continental freshwaters.

Although the aquatic systems across region as a whole support very high biodiversity, the areas shown here in red and orange score highest in their analysis of fishes, mussels, and crayfishes.

A significant part of the carbon storage thought to be offered by ecosystems on land — mainly forests — is thus negated by this leakage of carbon from soils to aquatic systems, and to the atmosphere.

Adriaan Slob, Senior Researcher, TNO Strategy and Policy Tara Geerdink, Senior Researcher, TNO Strategy and Policy Piotr Magnuszewski, Scientific Director, Centre for Systems Solutions Dejan Komatina, Secretary, International Sava River Basin Commission Fred Heuer, Former Director General in the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Water and infrastructure Philippe Pypaert, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Venice Office Samo Grošelj, Deputy Secretary for Protection of Waters and Aquatic Eco-system, International Sava River Basin Commission

Focusing on aquatic systems, a team of scientists led by Dr. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, recently warned that if current trends of over fishing and pollution continue, we face a worldwide seafood collapse by 2048.

Modern aquatic ecosystems are infiltrated with diverse mixtures of pollutants that can act together as a multiple stressor to alter biotic systems at all levels of biological organization, including individuals, populations and communities.

To investigate those effects, researchers turn to mesocosms — large tanks of water that can be used to simulate natural freshwater systems — at the Rensselaer Aquatic Facility.

Petrochemistry of environmental aquatic system (141 - 156)(ACS Sympoium Series 327).

Even the fish kingdom is under threat; according to the Environmental Protection Agency, the continual washing away of parabens into sewers and ultimately into natural river systems is damaging the organs of fish, frogs, and other aquatic life.

This past June, the Starstruck and Get Out & Learn (GO&L) students held their exhibitions off campus; Starstruck students replicated the solar system at Fisherman's Wharf and GO&L students described the process of making their skiff at Aquatic Park.

Maintenance Protocols, Water Testing and Challenges in Closed Aquatic Systems — This lecture outlines the necessity of basic water testing, sampling procedures, interpreting results, maintaining records and setting up a documented husbandry system in the store.

Topics include how to prevent the development and introduction of diseases to aquatic systems, the role of quarantine, learning how to recognize the signs of various diseases prior to initiating chemical treatments and use of a microscope to identify disease organisms.

Finally, I don't want to neglect the many products that enhance the maintenance and growing of live aquatic plants, including water additives, proprietary substrates and even systems that deliver carbon dioxide into the water, a compound that plants use in respiration.

There are a variety of filtration systems suited to meet the various aquarium sizes and needs of the aquatic life.

The advantage of the aquatic treadmill is that it takes pressure off of the joints, making exercise less damaging to those sensitive areas while still allowing rigorous exercise for the cardiovascular system and muscles.

John Fox: The Aquatic Division of Cincinnati - based United Pet Group traces its roots to 1998 and a series of acquisitions of the leading companies within the aquatics industry, including Marineland, Aquarium Systems (Instant Ocean), Perfecto Manufacturing, Tetra and Jungle Laboratories.

Dr.Tim's Aquatics» (drtimsaquatics.com) First Defense is designed to relieve stress and support the immune system of fish via immunostimulants and a mixture of vitamins.

This will sell not only the filtration systems, but also everything related, the pumps and liners, fish and fish food, aquatic plants and all of the accessories and add - ons.»

For scuba divers and snorkelers that arrive in Placencia before the whale sharks do, there are lots of other fun and interesting dives and inland adventure tours that are excellent destinations in their own right as the majority of the attractions in Belize are in the southern half of the country which offers the healthiest reef systems and abundance of aquatic life.

We'll conduct a knowledge review session with you, and then play a DVD of local fish and aquatic life before taking you for 2 scuba dives on Placencia's reef systems, where there's an abundance of fish stocks and aquatic life for you to identify.

The outdoor Neptune Pool, / 32 metres in length and with an oil - burning heating system, evokes ancient Greece and Rome, with marble statues of Neptune and Nereid guarding over the aquatic paradise.

To ensure you receive the complete scuba diving vacation with a diverse range of dive sites, and aquatic life, Splash Dive Centers professional dive guides, and experts in finding and identifying Belize's aquatic life will take you on your scuba dive trips to some of the best sites on Placencias inner reef systems that are part of Belize's barrier reef, the largest reef systems in the Caribbean.

Placencia has some of the nicest dive sites, and healthiest reef systems in Belize, and an abundance of aquatic life.

Upon completion, candidates should possess a strong understanding of the following: quarantine purpose and procedures, common disease causing agents and related medical treatments, water quality parameters and relatedness, advanced filtration systems, nitrogen cycle, system components and design, general fish and invertebrate anatomy and standard practices and procedures in aquatic husbandry.

The outdoor Neptune Pool, 104 feet / 32 metres in length and with an oil - burning heating system, evokes ancient Greece and Rome, with marble statues of Neptune and Nereid guarding over the aquatic paradise.

New aquatic gameplay will explore the oceans for colonization by dramatically extending the play space, while an overhauled diplomacy system will provide players with additional layers of dynamic choices and options to shape the diplomatic landscape while engaging with the AI and one another.

An abstract architectural structure composed of industrial materials and ecological matter ranging from aluminium scaffolding to grass turf and aquatic plants, the installation itself becomes a synthetic eco-system requiring its own life support systems to sustain it within the gallery space.

Understanding the species - specific physiological responses of sensitive species to environmental stressors is crucial for conservation efforts and managing aquatic systems globally.

The economics of this geothermal heat method are very attractive, and no aquatic system impacts have been shown.

Water monitoring will be done through a comprehensive and integrated approach that quantifies and assesses the sources, transport, loadings, fate, and types of oil sands contaminants in the Athabasca River system and effects on key aquatic ecosystem components (both within the oil sands development area and in downstream receiving environments) that are measures of ecosystem health and integrity (fish, invertebrates).

Urine comprises only 1 % of domestic sewage, but contains 90 % of wastewater's nitrogen, 50 % of its phosphorus, and the lion's share of dissolved pharmaceuticals like endocrine disruptors that even in minute quantities can alter hormone systems in humans and aquatic life.

Aquatic systems worldwide are changing because of increasing climate variability and human activities.