Sentences with phrase «on algae by»

Further sleuthing revealed Pseudo-nitzschia australis remains and domoic acid in the bay's anchovies, which feed on algae by filtering water through their gills.

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Instead, sloths outsmart predators by relying on camouflage, such as algae that grows on their fur.

The Group Standard on Colouring Foods for Food Industry has strict criteria for Colouring Foods; to be compliant they must be produced from natural food raw materials, such as fruits, vegetables, plants and algae by only using physical processes.

Tara Jensen hosts a monthly pizza night, and every time she's sure that no one will come, and every time, nearly 100 people show up, finding their way to the town of Marshall, North Carolina, then heading six miles northwest on Route 70 along the French Broad River, winding around the knoll called Walnut, and stopping at the dirt driveway leading to her compound, which consists of an algae - covered pond, a shack in the woods, a brick oven, and two pitched - roof houses, one of which is a bakery that goes by the name of Smoke Signals.

In turn, giant kelp positively affected the sessile invertebrates — sponges and sea squirts — that live on the bottom but can often be outcompeted for space by algae.»

Bloom of calcifying algae at the Barents Sea, documented by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA satellite AQUA.

Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.

Although many dinoflagellates can survive through photosynthesis alone, some species are able to grow twice as fast by preying on other algae — and it is this feeding mechanism that is now thought to be aided by the production of toxins.

SeaWiFS, on board the OrbView 2 (aka SeaStar) satellite measures the wavelengths of light reflected by phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants) and algae that use chlorophyll for photosynthesis.

Biologists have long known that toxins produced by algal blooms — exploding populations of minute, marine algae — can accumulate in shellfish that graze on them.

Chlamydomonas nivalis, the «watermelon snow» described by Lisa Grossman in her article on extreme life (14 June, p 13), is not a type of red algae but a green alga in the Chlorophyta phylum.

Pesticides pose by far the greatest risk to fish and invertebrates, with weedkillers having the biggest impact on algae.

Nearly all of the thousands of different chemical substances produced by people, animals, plants, fungi, algae or microorganisms on the ground or in the oceans react quickly with OH and break down in this process.

Steel panels with cerium oxide coatings can be exposed to seawater for weeks on end without becoming covered by bacteria, algae, mollusks, or barnacles.

Alternatively, by allowing it to feed on algae as well as rubbish on the seabed, it could be a way to take in a range of nutrients.

These flatworms live off energy provided by the green algae they store in their tissues — allowing them to spend their lives sunbathing on sandy beaches

These include Arctic cod and capelin, while krill and Calanus finmarchicus are replaced by Arctic amphipoda (another group of crustacean zooplankton), which live on ice algae which are also absent from Atlantic water.

But, by preying on a variety of reef fish species, lionfish are reducing the number of fish that clean algae off coral reefs, she said.

By analyzing the sediments, scientists can predict how much coral and algae were present on mesophotic reef environment, this new information has important implications from interpreting ancient reef environments found in fossils, where the abundance of diverse habitat forming species can not be analyzed visually.

Inspired by cephalopods — squid, octopus, and cuttlefish — which use ring - shaped muscles to squeeze small bumps on their skin into large bulges that mimic rocks and algae, researchers created similar reversible protrusions with sheets of stretchy silicone.

After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

On oxygenated seafloors, the first multi-cellular lifeform (possibly an eukaryotic alga) appears to have evolved by Year 2.4 billion as the 12 - centimeter or 4.7 - inch protoctist, Grypania (more from BBC News and New Scientist).

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even more photosynthesis by more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).

The researchers used a molecular «switch» from green algae called channelrhodopsin - 2 (ChR2), which is turned on by blue light.

4/26/2007 UCSD to Participate in Nationwide Trial to Assess Impact of Omega - 3 Fatty Acid on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease Nutritionists have long endorsed fish as part of a heart - healthy diet, and now some studies suggest that omega - 3 fatty acids found in the oil of certain fish and algae as well as human breast milk may also benefit the brain by lowering the risk of Al...

«Algae absorb carbon dioxide and are intrinsically solar - powered by photosynthesis, but C. zofingiensis has an added benefit in that it can be cultivated on non-arable land and in wastewater.»

By genetically inserting light - activated biological molecules such as channelrhodopsins, a family of proteins found in algae, into neurons, scientists can instantaneously turn them on using beams of blue light with millisecond precision.

We recommend Thrive ® Algae Oil be enjoyed by the «freshest date» indicated on the bottle, which is 18 - months from the point of bottling.

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabAlgae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabalgae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabalgae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabalgae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

Fact is, toxicological studies of the effects of algae (primarily spirulina) consumption on humans and animals, including feeding as much as 800mg / kg, and replacing up to 60 % of protein intake with algae sources, have shown no toxic effects, and in contrast, algae intake has actually been found to prevent damage caused by toxins that affect the heart, liver, kidneys, neurons, eyes, ovaries, DNA, and testicles.

Interesting Algae Micro-organisms on Electron Microscopy by Jeffrey Dach MD Coccolithophore (phylum Plankton) This is Plankton, a one - celled plant (using photosynthesis) living in the ocean.

I make a few adjustments on my protocol (upped the seaweed and algae, by the way).

In between it offers, among other things, meditations on Spanish architecture and landscapes, an outdoor concert where the conductor is on an elevated platform in a shopping arcade and the musicians are on nearby balconies, a lavish state party thrown for the novelist, a verbal chess match at the party, a credit sequence 20 - odd minutes into the film, a concert inside a cathedral, extended lovemaking, a recitation of part of the novelist's book, an opera performed at a gigantic fish market, a university lecture on algae, another opera set (though not staged) in a Turkish bath, a TV interview, a meal prepared and eaten by the three lovers, a film screening, and a plane trying to extinguish a forest fire.

In this pond grows jade - green algae, which is eaten by a mayfly nymph, which is eaten by a diving beetle, and so on until Anna hears a coyote stalking a raccoon.

Although the title seems impossible, lyrical text and mixed - media illustrations in earthy tones show how leaves fall into streams and become soggy on the bottom, where they are eaten by bacteria and become a home for algae.

It is a natural mineral product formed by fossilised prehistoric algae (yup) that has been proven to be quite effective at naturally killing fleas on Dogs and in the home.

Many customers do want fish in their tanks — fish encourage the growth of corals by eating algae and keep the nitrogen cycle on track — but they want fish that wont eat the coral.

Scores of convulsing sea lions are washing up on Central California beaches after eating fish poisoned by a plume of toxic algae that could spread north toward the Bay Area and cause widespread problems, marine biologists said.

An encounter with local turtles — who wait at «cleaning stations» to have algae and parasites picked off their shells by little cleaner fish, and nest on the island in the summer months — is almost guaranteed.

As most of the earth is covered by ocean the next questions could be of the UV / VIS - spectrum of water:» How deep under water floating algae can photosynthesize and what is the effect of ozone hole to the primary production on the southern ocean?»

These shifts to wetter summers correspond with periods on enhanced continental runoff as expressed by the abundance of freshwater indicators such as the algae Pediastrum and the dinocyst taxon Bosedinia and areconsistent with enhanced hydrological cycling prior to, and during the PETM interval.The marked increase in WMMT and WMMP puts a new perspective on environ - 15 mental precursors to the injection of carbon during the PETM.

To learn more about how communities in and around tropical seas can act locally to boost reef resilience (for instance, by limiting the harvest of algae - eating fish), please revisit my Pace University students» film on reef conservation in the Caribbean, focused on Curacao:

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In an article on Yale 360 Environment, Veron writes that the major issues include mass bleachings caused by warmer water, which kills off zooxanthellae, the algae with which coral have a symbiotic relationship, and ocean acidification.

These authors postulated an extended Barents Sea Ice Sheet, the western part of the huge Eurasian Ice Sheet51, 55, that had reached the shelf edge causing polynya - like open - water conditions (triggered by strong katabatic winds) with phytoplankton and sea ice algae production, subglacial meltwater outflow and the deposition of suspended material on the slope at site PS2138 - 2.

As a result of the 2007 law, written by Democrats, a significant part of that effort is now focused on developing advanced biofuels like those made from algae with reduced carbon footprints.

Algae's productivity depends on the amounts of nutrients in the water and these nutrients come to the surface by upwelling driven by the winds.

Even the models used to describe how phytoplankton production is sustained were driven by relatively simple concepts relying on mechanistic relationships between the algae, water chemistry and physics, and the light environment...

Each photon captured by an alga subtracts one from that total, and so on until all are consumed.