Sentences with phrase «on aquatic ecosystems»

Instead, such chemicals enter waterways where their effects on aquatic ecosystems are largely unknown.

Environmental impacts on water resources can put pressure on aquatic ecosystems that, in the short term, can have a more dramatic effect than climate change.

The main objective of Go ECO is for dive centres to minimise their impact on the aquatic ecosystem whilst contributing to environmental, economic and cultural conservation.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

«Oil spills are a global problem and wreak havoc on our aquatic ecosystems, not to mention cost billions of dollars in damage,» Chen said.

In the new research on salt alternatives — the first study to ever compare the effects of road salt alternatives and additives on aquatic ecosystems — researchers outfitted 64 mesocosms with many of the important players in an aquatic food web including, algae, zooplankton, amphipods, isopods, and snails.

Jan developed recommendations to the Puget Sound Partnership on the use of innovative financial mechanisms for the recovery of the Puget Sound ecosystem, worked with the Puget Sound Restoration Fund to establish a payments for services pilot for nitrogen removal by shellfish in Puget Sound, assisted BC Hydro develop performance measures for their long term environmental goal, and led studies evaluating impacts of flow alteration on aquatic ecosystems for King County.

However, hydroelectric facilities can still have a major impact on aquatic ecosystems.

During each high flow, GCMRC and cooperators monitor streamflow, sediment concentration, changes in sandbars, and effects on the aquatic ecosystem and fish populations.

Potential implications include impacts on aquatic ecosystems, agriculture, forestry, alpine tourism and water quality.