Sentences with phrase «oxygen environments off»
Levin encountered such blooms recently in low - oxygen environments off India's coast, where «the jellyfish were as thick as soup,» she says.
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The underwater microphones — two in the kelp canopy and two above the canopy — recorded the chirps bouncing off everything in the environment from oxygen bubbles from photosynthesis burbling up from the kelp to the kelp itself to the water's surface.
report that ocean sediment cores containing an «undisturbed history of the past» have been analyzed for variations in PP over timescales that include the Little Ice Age... they determined that during the LIA the ocean off Peru had «low PP, diatoms and fish,» but that «at the end of the LIA, this condition changed abruptly to the low subsurface oxygen, eutrophic upwelling ecosystem that today produces more fish than any region of the world's oceans... write that «in coastal environments, PP, diatoms and fish and their associated predators are predicted to decrease and the microbial food web to increase under global warming scenarios,» citing Ito et al..
When rice paddies are flooded, the oxygen - devoid environment creates the perfect place for bacteria to feed off of those carbohydrates, creating methane as a byproduct.