Sentences with phrase «small invertebrates»

These spiders are opportunistic hunters that prey on small invertebrates and vertebrates.

Each coral branch contains thousands of small invertebrates called polyps, and these tiny creatures thrive in warm, tropical waters.

Many more crinoids, crab, shrimp, brittle starfish, basket starfish and other small invertebrates hide among the coral.

They showed a smaller effect for small invertebrates, such as termites, that also contribute to decomposition of plant biomass.

Minibeasts are basically small invertebrate (without a backbone) animals, examples of minibeasts are spiders,

Arranged in two crescents, the spines could snap shut like a Venus flytrap to catch small invertebrates.

Dragon is due to return to Earth on 28 October, bearing completed experiments such as ESA's BioLab, which studies how cells and small invertebrates develop and grow in the microgravity of the ISS.

High school biology texts tend to gloss over parthenogenesis, typically mentioning the process as rare and restricted to mostly small invertebrates.

The traps on the tips of its leaves are some of the fastest - moving appendages in the plant kingdom, taking just 10 miliseconds to snap shut when small invertebrates land on them.

Given the ability of even small invertebrates known as water bears to repair DNA after radiation exposure, more surprises could yet await researchers who study the bacteria.

Marine life, which is abundant, includes many small invertebrates, as well as the larger pelagic's passing by deep in the blue.

When diving the spur and groove formations near Ambergris Cay, save some air to explore the shallow beds inside the reef for the best chance to see small invertebrates, lobsters and rays.

Other invertebrates come to feast on the smaller critters already in attendance: sea urchins, crabs, and, as the team discovered, two new kinds of worm — a species of bloodworm that feeds on small invertebrates, and a fireworm relative which acquired a new species and genus specification.

«The loss of very large starfish, like the sunflower stars, which are top predators in their ecosystems, has caused a shift in the abundance of their prey — urchins and other small invertebrates — for a while.

Algae growing on the prop roots of the red mangrove also serve as food for small invertebrates.

We could get radiation - resistance genes, for example, from the Bdelloid rotifer, a class of small invertebrates that live in freshwater pools and survive megadoses of ionizing radiation.

Biologists believe the whales are following a main prey, small invertebrates, northward.

The new study shows that small invertebrates can be transported over hundreds of kilometers by migrating birds.

At the same time, fish were getting hungrier at higher temperatures and started to decimate their prey, the small invertebrates.»

The dominant piscine predators dine on the smaller fish around a reef, which, in turn, prey on the small invertebrates that chow down the starfish larvae (young).

The researchers constructed marine food webs based on plants which use sunlight and nutrients to grow (algae), small invertebrates that graze on the plants (such as shrimp), and fish that in turn prey on small invertebrates.

«Elevated carbon dioxide concentrations boosted plant growth; more plant food meant more small invertebrates, and more small invertebrates, in turn, allowed the fish to grow faster,» says PhD candidate Silvan Goldenberg, who is supervised by Professor Nagelkerken and Professor Sean Connell.

Many prey on small invertebrates or even floating plankton, which is about as hard to subdue as chicken soup.

«These areas are home to the majority of Antarctic species — from seals and seabirds to mosses, lichens and small invertebrates, such as tardigrades and springtails.

The unfertilized eggs of some animals (small invertebrates, worms, some species of fish, lizards and frogs) can develop into full - grown adults under certain environmental conditions — usually a chemical stimulus of some kind.

These threads also form a home for a number of smaller invertebrates, both on the shore and in the deep sea.

I am dedicated to offering the highest level of veterinary care possible for all species that I may encounter, from the smallest invertebrate to the enormous megavertebrates.

A host of small invertebrates, which shelter among the many holes in this part of the reef, stand out in stark contrast to the colorful background.

Both times she was spotted playing in the shallow waters near shore with sea cucumber guts on her face, indicating that she had been exploring the area closely enough to scare the small invertebrates into expelling their insides in defense.

Studies describe that a similar species, the California slender salamander (B. attenuatus) capture prey using a projectile tongue and feed on small invertebrates, which consist of on earthworms, small slugs, a variety of terrestrial arthropods including sowbugs and millipedes, and insects including collembolans, aphids, caterpillars, small beetles, beetle larvae, and ants.

Has not been described in Channel Islands slender salamanders, although all Batrachoseps species observed thus far capture prey using a projectile tongue and feed on small invertebrates.

«Elevated carbon dioxide concentrations boosted plant growth; more plant food meant more small invertebrates, and more small invertebrates, in turn, allowed the fish to grow faster,» says Silvan Goldenberg, one of the Adelaide authors.

«At the same time, fish were getting hungrier at higher temperatures and started to decimate their prey, the small invertebrates.»

The multiyear sea ice provides unique habitat for ice - associated phytoplankton, zooplankton, small invertebrates, and a few species of fish, as well as resting, breeding, and hunting platforms for marine mammals of several species [262].