Sentences with phrase «sand eels»

Lanchbery said that climate impacts on plankton abundance in the North Sea already have resulted in a substantial reduction in sand eel numbers - a key food species for many seabirds.

Sand lance, also known as sand eels, tend to burrow into the sandy sediments at night or form nighttime horizontal schools close to the seafloor.

, when as far as we can see, the pipefish are not themselves being blamed for seabird declines — it's just that pipefish are a poor substitute for sand eels.

You can place greater certainty upon the disruption of plankton, pipefish and sand eels by these warmer seas where specific studies show the physiological effects of temperature changes in more detail.

Anon moves on, the «evidence», which «supports the fact that sand eel populations have declined partially due to warmer sea surface temperatures» apparently gives credibility to the claim that puffin populations have declined due to global warming.

This shortage has been independently indicated by Danish sand eel fisheries where catches in 2003 and 2004 were half the typical catch.

Not sand eels, not fish, and not squid, which is what they mostly eat, but plastic.

In Shetland in particular, there has been a decline in sand eels, their preferred food, thought to be a result of both changing sea temperatures and over fishing.»

It was good for Sand Eels and seabirds as a result.

Throughout the 1990s, they did this by developing a line of Natural Formulated Diets to meet fishes» specific needs equivalent to their diets in the wild, while also expanding our Sally's Single Ingredient Fish Foods, to include Bloodworms, Silversides, Sand Eels, Mussel, White Mosquito Larvae, Squid and Beefheart.

REASON # 2 the fact that the area is diversely populated with abundant marine life like groupers, snappers, hogfish, stingrays, and sand eels and all of these beautiful and colorful creatures are protected under Belize Law

And then we had sudden almost total collapse in sand eels and thus seabird breeding failure off our west coast this year, something that, elsewhere, has been linked to high sea temperatures killing off cold water plankton.

I agree with his position which I think is well supported by the present literature concerning sea surface temperatures, plankton, sand eels and pipefish.

We learned that bird populations in the North Sea collapsed last year, after the sand eels on which they feed left its warmer waters - and how the number of scientific papers recording changes in ecosystems due to global warming has escalated from 14 to more than a thousand in five years.