Sentences with phrase «other microscopic plants»

While algae and other microscopic plants, which form the base of the marine food chain, are vital to a healthy ecosystem, too much can cause murky water, reduce sunlight and oxygen levels, and ultimately cause harm to marine life.

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Bacterium effective when dusted on plants — The successful agent for destroying pesty insects, the microscopic bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, is most effective when it is dusted onto tobacco or other plants....

The next step for the model, she said, is to try to determine which individual species of phytoplankton will bloom where, based on nutrient amounts, temperatures and other factors — using satellites and other tools to determine which kind of microscopic plant is where.

Nor, researchers thought, can any other eukaryotes — the group of organisms we belong to along with other animals, plants, fungi, and various microscopic creatures.

In his 1665 book Micrographia — the first major work of illustrated observations made through a microscope — Hooke chronicled dozens of parasites, plants, and other microscopic wonders.

And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog, acid rain, lung - damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.

When the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco tested the effluent of eight Bay Area wastewater treatment plants last year, they «found that 80 percent of the microplastics and other microscopic particles were fibers.»