Sentences with phrase «regulate global cycles»

Viruses can significantly affect the protist population, reducing their ability to regulate global cycles.

Microbes play crucial roles in regulating global cycles involving carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus among others, but many of them remain uncultured and unknown.

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The loss of satellite - based «ocean color» measurements would be a blow to climate science, because phytoplankton — tiny ocean plants — help regulate the global carbon cycle.

Many uncultured microbes play unknown roles in regulating Earth's biogeochemical processes; everything from regulating plant health to driving nutrient cycles in both terrestrial and marine environments, processes that can impact global climate.

Climate change is thus inseparable from ocean change, and our ability to understand these changes relies heavily on our understanding of ocean ecosystems and, more specifically, the role of iron in regulating ocean productivity and hence the global carbon cycle and climate.

This includes rivers, which reportedly are crucial in regulating the global carbon cycle.

For cause and effect: You never know, but I don't think that cloud cover regulates the sun cycle... Globally, the variation of cloud cover during a sun cycle is around 2 %, which can have a substantial influence on global temperatures.

Boreal forests and peat lands — which often include carbon - containing permafrost — play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and therefore in regulating climate change.7, 15

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are naturally regulated by many processes that are part of the global carbon cycle.