Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic plankton»

Nitrogen from agricultural runoff and sewage stimulates the growth of photosynthetic plankton on the surface of coastal waters.

The water might duck into the thermocline for a few decades, but it will ultimately resurface and be subject again to photosynthetic plankton and iron fertilization from falling dust.

My guess would be a vast bloom of plants possibly algea or photosynthetic plankton or something like this.

In some cases, an attached fluorometer (6) collects data on the water's chlorophyll content, helping researchers understand the vertical distribution of photosynthetic plankton.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

Not exact matches

Instead, as suggested by the trickle - up theory of salmon restoration, the plankton tends to get eaten by tiny animals, which are then eaten by larger animals until, ultimately, all or most of the CO2 sucked up by the tiny plants during their photosynthetic life spans finds its way back to the atmosphere in relatively short order.

For one of them, you can thank plankton, in particular the single - celled photosynthetic drifters that comprise the phytoplankton of the world's oceans.