Sentences with phrase «organisms living in the ocean»

«Since no organisms living in the ocean today would have time to adapt to these warmer conditions, many will either go extinct or migrate away from the western Pacific, leaving this area with much lower biodiversity.»

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Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

Aside from myriad practical applications, these organisms could exemplify the kinds of life that exist in environments where little or no oxygen exists, such as the deep ocean or under the Martian surface.

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

Sea spray is a complex mixture of inorganic salts, organic material present in the ocean and living organisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

Marine biology is the scientific study of the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the ocean.

Scientists have found that about half of the organisms at Cuatro Cienegas are most closely related to marine life, even though the oases here have not been in contact with the ocean for tens of millions of years.

Temperature - stressed corals will discharge their dinoflagellate partners, resulting in coral «bleaching,» but the organisms can also live independently and may do so more easily in an ocean where CO2 is becoming more readily available.

Organisms, including the single - celled bacteria living in the ocean at that early date, need a steady supply of phosphorus, but «it's very hard to account for this phosphorus unless it is eroding from the continents,» says Aaron Satkoski, a scientist in the geoscience department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

What we see as a mere light in the sea is a phenomenon occurring in nearly all the organisms living in the seas and oceans, from bacteria to large fish, and which impacts the behaviour and dynamics of the entire system.

By accumulating the understanding of the ecology of small marine organisms, she hopes to deepen an understanding of the spread of life in the entire ocean.

The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.

Life on Earth likely emerged in the deep ocean, where simple organisms fed off toxic gas from volcanic vents.

«Biological oceanographers have speculated that early life stages of marine organisms might be particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competiocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competiOcean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competiocean acidification competition.

Further analysis of these organisms may shed light on how the fauna living at hydrothermal vents to the east and west of them, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, are genetically related.

We know life evolved in the oceans... but many of the organisms we studied are uncharacterized, little known to science, and we have a lot of work to do understand where these organisms fit in in our understanding of life.»

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

Chemical signatures of the ocean water the organisms lived in are locked into the composition of their shells, and researchers can analyze them for evidence of past water temperatures and other oceanographic conditions.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturationIn a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturationin the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturationin relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturationin seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

To untangle the impacts that these three climate stressors will have on seafloor diversity in the future, the researchers examined existing published data and collected new data on organisms living in deep - sea sediments in upwelling regions along continental margins, where the ocean and continental crusts meet along the seafloor.

These organisms, found mostly in certain ocean plankton communities, live a flexible, «mixotrophic» lifestyle.

The changes, warns Sabine, «may have serious effects on the organisms that live in the ocean — in ways we don't yet understand.»

With the methods used, it is now possible to study not only ore particles on the ocean floor in the range of millimetre to nanometre, but also the smallest fossils and living organisms, such as micro-organisms.

The question of how species came to live where they live, which is studied by the field of biogeography, has long been debated among biologists, especially in cases where organisms that are related live on distant continents separated by vast oceans.

Grassle thought it was a splendid idea, as long as it didn't get diverted into something strictly utilitarian — a census of seafood — and as long as it included all the other things that lived in the ocean, including obscure but biologically important organisms like polychaetes.

The 2.52 billion - year - old sulfur - oxidizing bacteria are described by Czaja as exceptionally large, spherical - shaped, smooth - walled microscopic structures much larger than most modern bacteria, but similar to some modern single - celled organisms that live in deepwater sulfur - rich ocean settings today, where even now there are almost no traces of oxygen.

She said: «Dickinsonia belongs to the Ediacaran biota — a collection of mostly soft - bodied organisms that lived in the global oceans between roughly 580 and 540 million years ago.

Stern estimates there is now 100 times more mercury dissolved in the Arctic Ocean now than there is in the bodies of living organisms.

Many of the deepest branches in Woese's tree, those that join nearest to the three - way junction of the kingdoms, turned out to belong to organisms that live at high temperatures, as in the fuming springs in Yellowstone Park or the volcanic vents that gash the ocean floor.

While on present - day Earth the carbonate formation is dominantly through organic processes (various shell - forming marine organisms are happy to make use of the CO2 dissolved in the ocean), in the early Earth and, presumably, in other Earth - like planets with little or no life the same process can occur inorganically, but somewhat slower, in silicate rock weathering.

The rain then interacts with silicate - rocks and forms carbonate rocks in the silicate weathering process — or, in a planet that is so filled with life as ours, tiny organisms can grab the carbon - dioxide dissolved in the ocean to build shells or coral reefs.

«Ocean acidification is already having impacts on marine organisms and the scale and magnitude of the impact on life in the ocean and the services they support will incrOcean acidification is already having impacts on marine organisms and the scale and magnitude of the impact on life in the ocean and the services they support will incrocean and the services they support will increase.

The carbon captured by living organisms in oceans is stored in the form of biomass and sediments from mangroves, salt marshes, sea grasses and potentially algae.»

Up until this time, it was thought that organisms living in the deep sea depended on a constant «rain» of food from above, i.e. from the lighted regions of the ocean.

An international study to understand and predict the likely impact of ocean acidification on shellfish and other marine organisms living in seas from the tropics to the p...

«These findings add to the possibility that Enceladus, which contains a subsurface ocean and displays remarkable geologic activity, could contain environments suitable for living organisms,» said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

The purpose of the cruise was to determine how marine organisms are acclimated to long - term ocean acidification and the resulting effect on biogeochemical cycles by studying organisms living in naturally CO2 - rich coral reefs.

About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.

(singular: archaeon) a group of tiny organisms often living in extreme environments, such as ocean vents and salt lakes.

Synthetic textiles, which don't biodegrade, are found in oceans, landfills and even in the digestive tracts of living organisms throughout our environment.

Plankton, the tiny organisms at the bottom of the ocean food chain that so much of marine life depends on, drift with the ocean currents, but sometimes come together in dense patches under the surface that can later rise to the surface as red tides.

Also true is there exist heat - tolerant corals, corals that are regularly exposed to (and routinely survive) the extreme stress of finding themselves out in the tropical air at low tide, and many ocean organisms that live through large swings in pH through tidal cycles.

Obviously, the most important affects of ocean acidification would be on living organisms in the ocean thereby affecting primary productivity.

But seen the environmental global CRISIS of GLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisoning.

Many studies have demonstrated the risks that ocean acidification pose to marine organisms, such as coral dissolving in more acidic water.6 However, new findings suggest that the August and September time period could be particularly challenging for the earliest life stage of elkhorn coral — an important reef - forming coral of the Caribbean — if we continue on a path of high carbon dioxide emissions.5 Ordinarily each August or September elkhorn corals flood the water with eggs and sperm (gametes) for sexual reproduction.2

In the dark depths of the ocean, mysterious organisms have been converting carbon dioxide into a form useful for life.

There is much more dead shell than live even in the open ocean — and living organisms actively build shell..

Biosphere (terrestrial and marine)- The part of the Earth system comprising all ecosystems and living organisms, in the atmosphere, on land (terrestrial biosphere) or in the oceans (marine biosphere), including derived dead organic matter, such as litter, soil organic matter and oceanic detritus.