Sentences with phrase «planktonic organisms»

Over the weeks of residence, they also studied the fluctuations and migrations of planktonic organisms in the water column, still a focus of research today.

Previously, the ocean's numerous planktonic organisms have largely been uncharacterized.

«Compared to other planktonic organisms, coccolithophores will find themselves in a disadvantage.

Early Earth also was hotter than today, the sea contained great amounts of dissolved silica due to a lack of planktonic organisms like today that use it for their shells.

Several groups of single - celled planktonic organisms, all of which are common in the oceans today, were greatly affected by the PETM.

Left: Marine sediment core sample from the South Atlantic with fossilised partially dissolved shells of planktonic organisms.

As soon as they are lowered, each bag encloses a water column and all planktonic organisms living in it.

Billions of planktonic organisms, too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, make this valuable service possible: When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.

These planktonic organisms seem to benefit from ocean acidification.

«Because of the short generation times of planktonic organisms and the rapid succession of different populations, it becomes possible to study adaptation processes in the natural environment.»

This event had eliminated dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ammonites and belemnites, as well as many groups of birds, bivalves, brachiopods, marine reptiles, plants and planktonic organisms.

Or you may simply watch, mesmerised as your torch beams draw thousands of planktonic organisms to swarm over your lights.

«These planktonic organisms are the life support system of the planet.»