Sentences with phrase «through food webs»

A warmer climate is generally expected to favour smaller organisms and steeper body - mass — abundance scaling through food webs.

Climate - induced change in biotic interactions, such as loss of mutualist partner species, increases in disease or pest incidence, phenological mismatches, or trophic cascades through food webs after decline of a keystone species.

Identify how energy flows through food webs.

Presentation Learning Objective (s): Identify how matter flows through food webs.

Toxins like PCBs and dioxin travel through the food web in fat and become more concentrated as they move up the food chain.

And they move through the environment, often through the food web.

The impact of a predator down through the food web all the way to plants is called a «trophic cascade.»

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

Her team is also following the path of gas and oil through the food web by tracking how signature carbon isotopes are incorporated into the tissues of organisms.

Then it has to move up through the food web.

The virus had likely rippled through the food web, starving these invasive predators, which had been devouring native species along with rabbits — a chain reaction called a trophic cascade.

Using this data, they calculated the energy that flows through the food web in the leaf litter.

Water quality suffers in ecosystems where Daphnia populations have declined, and the loss of Daphnia can have cascading effects through the food web.

From The Sierra Club magazine of January / February, 2018: «Each time fleece gets washed, thousands of tiny plastic fibers are released and ultimately ends up in rivers and oceans, where they work their way through the food web.»

POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bioaccumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects on human health and the environment.

Yet, there are no studies suggesting cascading effects through the food web but such effects are highly likely.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

The increased acidity of the oceans is already proving to be quite a problem through the food web for fish, reducing fish harvests.

Not exact matches

It's called the «bomb pulse,» and it still makes its way, through plants, into the food web.

A friend recommended a healthier food blog to Jess and we've started flipping through all of the wonderful cookbooks (old & new) on our bookshelves for inspiration — with the interwebs a finger's length away, it's easy to rely solely on them web for meal planning even though we've got a wealth of beautifully bound print books close by.

The particular aspects of food webs to be assessed through this work will likely comprise aspects of the following:

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Featuring 35 or so recipes that have proven most popular on the site, these well - priced, compact e-books let you to delve into specific food niches without poring through lots of web sites.

Those tended to mushroom once investigators traced products through the Continent's complex web of producers, food makers and suppliers.

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As pointed out on Web MD, just about every child goes through a period of rejecting new foods.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Effective today, access to Food Facility Inspection reports from Erie County Department of Health («ECDOH») is available through a link on the ECDOH web site, www.erie.gov/health.

They have established networks and communication lines among various stakeholders, including the media, policy - makers, farmers, food and feed industries, and the concerned public, through collaborative workshops and seminars, information in the media, their Web sites, and the distribution of promotional materials (brochures, information leaflets, etc).

He says using fatty acids to track energy flow through so many parts of the food web is an intriguing approach.

Mathematically, coexistence means that a path through the interaction matrix, formed by all species in the food web, can be found.

The selective extinction of large - bodied animals could have serious consequences for the health of marine ecosystems, the scientists say, because they tend to be at the tops of food webs and their movements through the water column and the seafloor help cycle nutrients through the oceans.

A somewhat different look at the nation's food deserts is available through the USDA's Food Desert Locator Web sfood deserts is available through the USDA's Food Desert Locator Web sFood Desert Locator Web site.

«Microplastics entering ocean food web through zooplankton, researchers find.»

«While the changing seascape has dramatically altered and increased the diversity and number of small creatures at the base of the marine food web, we still don't know how these changes in the ecosystem will propagate through the entire chain.

Methylmercury builds up in the food web through a process called «biomagnification», said Ms Gionfriddo, PhD candidate from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne.

«This can help us determine mechanisms that influence species composition in planktonic communities exposed to red tides, and suggests that these chemical cues could alter large - scale ecosystem phenomena, such as the funneling of material and energy through marine food webs.»

Consequently, in the past 20 years his research has evolved from an early focus on prioritizing the effects that humans have on coral reefs and the role that marine protected areas play in conserving biological diversity and ecological processes, to developing theoretical and simulation models of coral reefs that will help predict and suggest alternatives to reduce detrimental effects, to developing practical means to restore degraded reefs through manipulation of the food web and management.

Also, vernal pools contain many species that interact through predator - prey and competitive interactions to form complex food webs.

Potential routes of exposure include aerosolization, dermal contact, ingestion of water, and dietary exposure through the aquatic food web.

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Your students will review Classification, Adaptations, Food Chain / Webs, and Basic Anatomy through the learning about fascinating Cephalopods!

To help new employees through the first two months with the company, Pet Food Express has developed 10 web - based modules that each new hire must complete before moving on to Pet Food Express University.

But measuring long - term damage requires understanding how pollutants work their way through water, sediments and the food web over time.

«What is important about this study is that while yes, whales eat fish (including baleen whales), whales enhance the production of fish by providing through excretion the nutrients essential for phytoplankton growth at the base of the food web,» said Jim Ruzicka from the Hatfield Marine Science Center at the University of Oregon.

Scientists across NOAA Fisheries are watching a persistent expanse of exceptionally warm water spanning the Gulf of Alaska that could send reverberations through the marine food web.

the current rate of warming threatens to seriously undermine the functioning of biomes and ecosystems through uneven effects on species within tightly interacting food webs.