Sentences with phrase «rich plankton blooms»
The larger pelagic's including Whale Sharks and Manta Rays are making their annual appearances during this time, to feed on the rich plankton blooms which make this incredibly bio-diverse area so full of life.
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Iron - rich sediment from deserts feeds plankton blooms in the ocean and plants in the upper canopy of tropical rain forests.
Sardines thrived here, feeding on the rich blooms of plankton fertilized by nutrients carried along by rising deep ocean waters.
Anchovies prefer the La Nina since the upwelling of deep nutrient - rich water at the eastern Pacific fuels a huge plankton bloom sustaining a multi-million ton annual fishery of anchovies off Peru.
The zones form when nutrient - rich waters from the depths rise to the surface and enable a bloom in plankton growth.
The rich concentrations of nutrients help stimulate large plankton blooms and subsequent die offs, which result in bacteria eating the decomposing plankton and consuming what little oxygen remains in the water.