Sentences with phrase «other sea organisms»

«They unearthed vast numbers and varieties of seashells, crinoid stems and parts, corals... and other sea organisms,» he wrote.

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Other living organisms indicating the Earth is far more than a few thousands of years old include Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea.

According to the study, most of the highly toxic benzene and toluene in the oil were transported away in deep currents, along with other entrapped petroleum compounds that affected organisms on and near the sea floor.

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

By eating mussels on the low shores in Oregon, sea stars keep those populations in check so the bivalves don't explode in numbers, at the expense of other organisms.

Others have tracked the first few hours of the embryonic development of sea urchins and other organisms with the goal of seeing how various transcription factors alter gene expression over time.

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

When it died, it sank to the bottom of the sea floor with its skeleton falling apart and becoming a hub for coral and other organisms to grow on.

If the structure of Martian water is highly pressurised, perhaps we might expect to find organisms adapted to high pressure life similar to piezophiles on Earth, such as deep sea bacteria and other organisms that thrive at high pressure.

The general mechanisms of symbiosis revealed in the study are of relevance to other symbiotic organisms such as deep - sea tubeworms and giant clams.»

This is an important finding because current estimates of biological activity in surface waters of the ocean rely on instruments aboard satellites that measure the color of the sea surface, which changes along with levels of chlorophyll - a, an assessment that will miss blooms of other organisms, such as bacteria.

For years, scientists have been unable to reconcile the nutritional requirements of crustaceans, sea cucumbers, snails, and tube worms nearly a mile beneath the surface with the amount of nourishment — microscopic organisms and other organic matter — that rains down from above.

Scientists have been isolating marine natural compounds from sea sponges and other marine organisms to find treatments for diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis.

Together with other international partners, Yakimov's team has already identified more than ten new lineages of bacteria and archaea (these are ancient bacteria - like organisms), which they have named the Mediterranean Sea Brine Lake Divisions.

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...

A well - known issue with LGM proxies is that the most abundant type of proxy data, using the species composition of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, probably underestimates sea surface cooling over vast stretches of the tropical oceans; other methods like alkenone and Mg / Ca ratios give colder temperatures (but aren't all coherent either).

The krill, for instance, a very important link in marine food chain, feed on phytoplankton and in turn gets eaten by other organisms in the sea such as fish.

For this to happen, the organism typically must first become quickly buried in sediment on the floor of the sea or some other body of water.

In the marine environment are found gray whales, harbor seals and California sea lions as well as a multitude of fish species and other marine organisms.

If this trend continues, in 50 years the sea ice could disappear entirely during summers — possibly wiping out ice algae and most other organisms farther up the food chain.

Other factors also contribute to smoothing the proxy temperature signals contained in many of the records we used, such as organisms burrowing through deep - sea mud, and chronological uncertainties in the proxy records that tend to smooth the signals when compositing them into a globally averaged reconstruction.

On the other hand, some shelled organisms, including oysters, clams, sea urchins, corals, and calcareous plankton could be at risk if a more acid environment interferes with the calcification process.

Sea ice is also crucial to Arctic ecosystems, supporting nutritious algae that other organisms feed on, he said.

That's not to say what will befall California's marine residents: A weakening of the upwelling season, during which nutrient - rich deep water is brought to the surface, could starve the sea lions, fish and other organisms that depend on this source of food.

For even if the models are proven to be wrong with respect to their predictions of atmospheric warming, extreme weather, glacial melt, sea level rise, or any other attendant catastrophe, those who seek to regulate and reduce CO2 emissions have a fall - back position, claiming that no matter what happens to the climate, the nations of the Earth must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions because of projected direct negative impacts on marine organisms via ocean acidification.

The above quote from it references a 2007 study, «Climate - related increases in jellyfish frequency suggest a more gelatinous future for the North Sea,» that points out acidification will «severely affect calcifying plankton and other skeleton - forming organisms, so would potentially favor noncalcifying organisms such as jellyfish.»