Sentences with phrase «of planktonic organisms»
Or you may simply watch, mesmerised as your torch beams draw thousands of planktonic organisms to swarm over your lights.
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Early Earth also was hotter than today, the sea contained great amounts of dissolved silica due to a lack of planktonic organisms like today that use it for their shells.
«Because of the short generation times of planktonic organisms and the rapid succession of different populations, it becomes possible to study adaptation processes in the natural environment.»
Billions of planktonic organisms, too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, make this valuable service possible: When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.
Left: Marine sediment core sample from the South Atlantic with fossilised partially dissolved shells of planktonic organisms.
Over the weeks of residence, they also studied the fluctuations and migrations of planktonic organisms in the water column, still a focus of research today.
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This event had eliminated dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ammonites and belemnites, as well as many groups of birds, bivalves, brachiopods, marine reptiles, plants and planktonic organisms.
«These planktonic organisms are the life support system of the planet.»
The whole oceanic set of ecosystems globally will be able to benefit from that important flow of nutrients and the planktonic and other organisms that utilise them.
They focus on two maritime sources of proxy data: coral and individual planktonic foraminifera (monocellular organisms that float in seawater at various depths).
Experimental evidence suggests that this decreasing pH will reduce the calcium carbonate concentration, compromising the calcification of the skeletons of marine organisms, such as corals and planktonic mollusks (pteropods).
This may impact a wide range of organisms and ecosystems (e.g., coral reefs, Box 4.4, reviewed by Raven et al., 2005), including juvenile planktonic, as well as adult, forms of benthic calcifying organisms (e.g., echinoderms, gastropods and shellfish), and will affect their recruitment (reviewed by Turley et al., 2006).