Sentences with phrase «often microscopic animals»

They incorporated the lifecycle of phytoplankton and zooplankton — small, often microscopic animals at the bottom of the food chain — into a novel mechanistic model for assessing the global ocean carbon export.

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When a deficiency of vitamin and minerals takes place, the malnourished animal, has a depressed immune system, and is often subject to an attack of microscopic mites which get under the skin and irritate it.

Often realised in carnival - bright colours, these works are chromatically, culturally and metaphorically rich, suggesting animals, plants, the human body and landscape ranging from the microscopic to the macrocosmic.