Sentences with phrase «shallow water environment»

These extreme climate indices were strongly correlated to the shallow water environment, including streamflow and water temperature.

Current research suggests that ancient coral reefs began as deep, dark communities that evolved into highly diverse systems by establishing communities in shallower water environments with more light.

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-- If you don't have anywhere to leave the dough to rise you can create the perfect environment using your oven: boil some water and pour it into a shallow bowl or tray, place this inside your oven right at the bottom then turn the oven light on.

Create a comfortable environment in the water, and keep to the shallow end until you and your child are ready for deeper waters.

The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead Sea.

These results indicate that such a microorganism can find a way to survive even in intricate and challenging environments, where other creatures may become extinct, such as shallow water where a whale may become stuck.

Differentiation among ecotypes may be driven by the distinction between a resource rich environment in shallower water, and a relatively resource poor environment deeper down the slope.

The research team collected sediments from four deep reef environments between 30 - 50 meters south of St. Thomas, U.S.Virgin Islands, and from two shallower water reef sites.

It is fossiliferous, extensively bioturbated and interpreted to have been deposited in a productive, shallow - water, inner shelf environment during a transgression [11].

To find out, Cronin's team raised some young mantis shrimp in light that included red, similar to the light in shallow - water environments.

For the Baltimore meeting there were two special sessions, «Acoustics in Polar Environments», which was organized and chaired by Jennifer Miksis - Olds and Ann Bowles and «Impact of Shallow Water Acoustic Propagation by Linear Internal Waves and Neutrally Buoyant Intrusions», organized and chaired by DJ Tang and David Bradley.

And those same colorful coral formations extend upward into shallow waters near the shore, allowing snorkelers to experience the full diversity and splendor of this unique underwater environment.

The shallow clear waters inside the reef provide an excellent environment for beginners.

The controlled environment of the shallow - water platform is also a more secure option for children who may be nervous with these large marine mammals.

During these months, the water temperature around the islands of Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan drop — creating the perfect environment for the Mola Mola (Bali Sunfish) to come up to shallower waters — allowing divers to view these majestic animals.

Macao's shallow waters and smooth sandy beach bottom make for a completely safe environment for learning to surf.

The shallow, calm waters off Michaelmas Cay offer a perfect environment for first - time divers.

«We discovered that although the small shallow ponds we studied represent only 44 percent of the water - covered surface in a Bylot Island valley, they generate 83 percent of its methane emissions,» said Karita Negandhi, a water sciences doctoral student at the INRS's Environment Research Center.»

While temperatures on offshore reef environments have been > 17 - 18 deg C (likely due to oceanic influence from the Florida Current), shallow - water and nearshore environments have fallen well below 14 deg C (e.g., 10 - 11 deg C near Long Key).

Recent reports have surfaced among scientists, resource managers, and the media of large - scale, multi-species fish kills that have been primarily limited to shallow - water environments in Florida and Biscayne Bay.

However, we demonstrated that there is specialisation of the coral host to particular reef environments, with each strain of coral host associating only with particular types of symbiotic algae... the results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.

Dissolved methane is chemically unstable in the oxic water column of the ocean, but it has a lifetime of decades (shorter in high - flux environments)[Valentine et al., 2001], so if the methane is released shallow enough in the ocean, it has a good chance of escaping to the atmosphere.