Sentences with phrase «shallow coastal waters»

Both species winter in deeper waters and feed in shallow coastal waters in the summer.

7 During the winter, the Marine Bio Conservation Society states that the gray whales inhabit shallow coastal waters of the eastern and western North Pacific often sighted along the North American Pacific Coast between the arctic and the equatorial lagoons of Baja California, Mexico.

Dr Veerle Huvenne, Seafloor and Habitat Mapping Team Leader at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, explains: «Submarine canyons form the main connection between shallow coastal waters and the deep sea.

Seagrass meadows are found in shallow coastal waters around the world.

In addition, pollution, shoreline alteration, and destructive fishing methods continue to damage the coral reefs and sea - grass meadows in shallow coastal waters where sea horses live and breed.

Eventually, tides may wash bacteria and other microbes from the intertidal beach sand out into shallow coastal water.

And shouldn't the relative T - difference even increase in the future as shallower coastal waters heat up more quickly than deeper ocean water (except probably in upwelling areas)?

Offshore electricity generation, mainly from wind, has increased rapidly in recent years, notably in the relatively shallow coastal waters of Europe's North Sea.

The Gulf of Mexico Found in Chapter 13: Ocean Acidification and Other Changes What the image shows: Suspended sediment in shallow coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana.

Louisiana is one of the most important oil - producing states in the nation, home to drillers that operate in shallow coastal waters, and to shipbuilders and support companies that contribute to oil operations in the deeper waters offshore.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

Wind turbines usually sit on platforms bolted to the seafloor in shallow coastal waters, so they miss steady wind currents that blow further out at sea.

Eelgrass meadows grow in shallow coastal waters and are among the most productive ecosystems in the sea.

The second species spawns smaller, but tougher, eggs in shallow coastal waters.

However, he says there is some evidence that young plesiosaurs lived in shallow coastal waters, before heading out into deeper waters as adults.

It says human activity has already caused significant long - term damage to shallow coastal waters.

The creature's heavy bones, like a scuba diver's weight belt, counteracted natural buoyancy and probably enabled it to forage in shallow coastal waters, Jiang says.

To find out whether the fish were indeed controlling the flashes, the zoologist and his colleagues experimented with triplefins, finger - size fish that live in the shallow coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Shallow coastal waters are sheltered by the Belize Barrier Reef which is the largest reef system in the Western Hemisphere.