Sentences with phrase «oysters build their shells»

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Oysters, clams, and mussels have built - in «timers» - their shells are tightly closed when fresh, but they pop open when they are done cooking.

We want to make sure the building has the raw food ingredients shoppers need, while being able to get breakfast from Boulettes Larder or oysters on the half shell while they're here.»

These night - time harmful conditions are changing about twice as fast as the daily average, the researchers say, meaning the negative impacts on shell - building animals, including oysters, clams and mussels, may manifest more quickly than expected from simply observing the daily average.

In waters depleted of carbonate ions, young oysters must expend more energy to build their shell and may not survive.

The researchers found that young oysters and mussels build their shells within 48 hours to successfully begin feeding at a rate fast enough to survive, and that the rate of shell - building required significant energy expenditures.

In the presence of acidic water, the oysters and mussels had to divert too much energy to shell - building and lacked the energy to swim and get food.

The volunteers strapped on boots and gloves to place 16,000 bags of oyster shells along the shore - the first step to building 100 miles of oyster reef in the region.

In the first, Woods Hole Oceanographic researchers Justin Ries et al. found that crabs, shrimp and lobsters build more shell when exposed to acidification and that hard clams and corals slowed formation of shells at very high CO2 levels, while soft clams and oysters did so at lower levels.

When carbon dioxide dissolves in the sea, it becomes more acidic, making it hard for creatures like oysters, mussels and coral to build shells.

That means acidification has a punishing effect on corals, oysters, crabs, shrimp and plankton — virtually anything that builds a hard shell or exoskeleton.