Sentences with phrase «pelagic communities»

It is speculated that these effects can control the spatiotemporal distribution of magnitude and nutritional quality of the flux of food particles to the benthic and benthic - pelagic communities at and near tall seamounts.

For the pelagic communities, the use of new acoustic technologies and continuously observing systems placed on moorings will give a new understanding of temporal changes beyond the snapshots available through point - sampling methods.

The effects of ocean acidification on a pelagic community and their impacts on food webs and biogeochemical cycles were studied in a long - term mesocosm experiment conducted in the Gullmar Fjord at the west coast of Sweden.

Pelagic community - The community of organisms living in the open waters of a river, a lake or an ocean (in contrast to benthic communities living on or near the bottom of a water body).

Not exact matches

Furthermore the potential and limitations of biogeochemical measurements inside pelagic mesocosms that host entire plankton communities are elucidated.

Abyssal zone Layers of the pelagic zone The abyssal zone is the abyssopelagic layer or pelagic zone that contains the very deep benthic communities near the bottom of oceans.

Global warming could have especially strong impacts on the regions of oceanic subpolar fronts, where the temperature increase in deep water could lead to a substantial redistribution of pelagic and benthic communities, including commercially important fish species.

Given the lack of detailed proxy records to trace simultaneously biochemical baselines and length of food webs, assessing the extent to which biogeochemical cycling and community structure in pelagic ecosystems have changed over the past century is difficult, as is attributing change to natural cycles versus anthropogenic disturbances.

Large shifts in pelagic biodiversity (Beaugrand et al., 2002) and in fish community composition have been seen (Genner et al., 2004; Perry et al., 2005).