Sentences with phrase «pelagic ocean»

This has resulted in dramatic spread of global grasslands, which trap dust and limit aeolian transport of iron into the pelagic ocean.

They are found in very deep, pelagic ocean environments.

A liveaboard safari vessel is one of the best ways to explore these stunning waters, giving you access to some of the more remote atolls and the best dive sites in the Maldives and, with a little bit of luck, encounters with some of the most revered pelagic ocean creatures.

«Somewhere in the South Pelagic Ocean,» a tidal wave wipes out the population of a small island — except for Mau, who was paddling his dugout canoe home after a month spent alone, preparing to become a man.

Not exact matches

While certain parts of the ocean may still be considered clean, this would only be suitable for endemic (rather than pelagic) species.

Help the Large Pelagics Research Center improve scientific understanding of large fish and other species living in the open ocean by supporting and participating in cooperative research projects

There is already evidence that many coral reef fish and pelagic fish, like tuna, have moved in response to warmer ocean waters.

Blanket octopuses are pelagic, never touching the sea floor, Norman explains, which makes it hard for males to find females in the open ocean.

Most marine fishes have a pelagic larval stage that drifts in the surface or near - surface currents of the ocean — an environment very different from the one they inhabit as adults.

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.

Great Auk Called «the penguin of the north,» these flightless pelagic birds thrived throughout the north Atlantic ocean, but their restriction to a few crowded islands for breeding made them vulnerable to exploitation by humans that reached industrial scale.

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

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.

To empirically determine whether open - ocean fish have evolved a cryptic reflectance strategy for their heterogeneous polarized environments, the researchers measured the contrasts of live open - ocean and coastal fish against the pelagic background in the Florida Keys and Curaçao.

For the first time, an international team of 70 marine scientists investigates impacts of ocean acidification on pelagic ecosystems.

Northern fur seals are pelagic, living almost all of the time in the open ocean, and only use certain offshore islands for pupping and breeding.

If a fur seal is found on a mainland beach, something is probably wrong as they are pelagic, which means they live almost all of the time in the open ocean.

Cape Arago State Park: This is the best location in the Coos Bay area to ocean scope for pelagic bird species.

The currents and choppy conditions as well as the open ocean nature of Socorro islands make it an ideal dive destination for large pelagics not only for mantas but also for Humpback whales.

When ocean conditions are ripe, pelagic (i.e., living in the open ocean) sargassum can form «islands» a few acres across (3 - 5 ft. deep).

The Elbow is probably the best known site here where the ocean current sweeps over the deep reef attracting schools of pelagic fish.

Up - welling from the deep water of the Indian Ocean south of the islands, and plankton rich currents of the Lombok Strait attract many kinds of pelagics.

And you don't have to go far to hook up — good catches take place as close as one quarter mile offshore all three Cayman Islands, where the ocean floor drops off sharply, plummeting thousands of feet and creating a natural thoroughfare for the big migratory pelagic species prized by anglers.

Blue whales are typically pelagic (deep ocean) animals, so the Sea of Cortez offers a rare opportunity for humans to glimpse them.

You can see both Pacific reef and pelagic (open ocean) species.

The strong currents of the outer reefs bring nutrient rich waters from thousands of miles around, and in turn, lure in some of the most diverse life in the ocean, including everything from macro life to pelagic spectacles that defy the eye.

Other than telling us that coral reefs (and Pelagic ecosystems) are in trouble — I have already kissed the coral reefs goodbye due to temperature increases alone — no firm conclusions were drawn about ocean acidification and its affects on ocean biology.

They then looked at the challenges that warmer oceans delivered for crustaceans, molluscs, sponges, deep sea invertebrates, the warm and cold water corals that provide habitat for one - fourth of the ocean's variety, the pelagic or surface - swimming fish, and the demersal or deep - sea denizens that live longer, reproduce more slowly and are thus less likely to evolve and adapt to changing conditions.

A first - of - its - kind study of bigeye tuna movements in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean led by Molly Lutcavage, director of the Large Pelagics Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, found among other things...

«Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine - grained sediment that has accumulated by the settling of particles through the water column to the ocean floor beneath the open ocean far from land.

The distribution of calcium carbonate - secreting pelagic organisms is primarily controlled by the fertility and temperature of the near - surface ocean.

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).

Officials with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) were extremely busy last week, fielding more than 57,000 comments they received opposing a proposal that further incentivizes pelagic longliners to target Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the fish's only known western Atlantic spawning area.

However, the far ocean (also known as the Pelagic Zone) is generally deficient in iron.

It is currently unclear whether observed pelagic ecosystem responses to ocean warming, such as a mid-1970s change in the eastern North Pacific, depart from typical ocean variability.

Ocean warming and increasing acidity are threatening the ecosystems of coral reefs, pelagic micro-organisms, and food chains.

So he decided to create original drawings of pelagic (open ocean) birds and place them in glass bottles along with an information sheet about the project and his contact information.

Marine organisms and their pelagic propagules are experiencing oceans simultaneously warming and decreasing in pH [1 — 5].

Overall, the negative impact of ocean acidification on the size and survivorship of echinoplutei, and other larvae, will lower their performance, compromising success of the pelagic life stage.