Sentences with phrase «potential food web»

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8236 This article describes some potential food web changes in the NE Pacific this year.

«We clearly have much to learn about the potential food webs in our homes.»

Not exact matches

«We don't yet know the extent to which ocean acidification could alter these additional predator - prey interactions, but there is clear potential for broader disruption of links within shoreline food webs.»

If that's the case, «there is potential for this plastic to enter the global ocean food web,» says Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, Crawley.

Topics of discussion regarding science for integrated management of coastal and shelf processes included natural variability of the coastal zone in space and time, experimental management, potential roles of different species, assemblages and habitats in coastal systems, effects of changing nutrient regimes, and perturbations of food - web dynamics.

Thus, past and future increases in atmospheric nitrogen deposition have the potential to alter the base of the marine food web; and, in the long term, the structure of the ecosystem.

Recent research was reported in an article in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, which found that high levels of road salt can alter the sex ratios of frogs; an article in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, which documented the effects of road salt and a common insecticide on wetland food webs; and an article in Environmental Pollution, which examined potential interactions between road salt, predators, and competitors in wetland food webs.

Potential routes of exposure include aerosolization, dermal contact, ingestion of water, and dietary exposure through the aquatic food web.

It affects many more organisms either directly or indirectly and has the potential to disturb food webs and fisheries.

In a new study, Harvard University researchers found more than 90 % of potential new Canadian hydroelectric projects are likely to increase concentrations of the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) in food webs near indigenous communities.

Finally, the impacts of climate change on plant growth could alter ecological interactions among species with potential cascading effects on food webs; integrating changes in suitable plant growing days and NPP within recently developed General Ecosystem Models [40] could provide some insights into the magnitude of these changes.

Melting Arctic ice - sheets will reduce ocean salinities (IPCC, 2001), causing species - specific shifts in the distribution and biomass of major constituents of Arctic food webs, including poleward shifts in communities and the potential loss of some polar species (such as the narwhal, Monodon monoceros).