Sentences with phrase «tiny algae»

Disappearing ice can be good for species such as tiny algae that

Tiny algae called Marine Snow located under the ice in Antarctica may hold the key to understanding the food chain for a huge part of the ocean.

Normally, tiny algae cells live inside coral polyps.

Every couple of hours, the greedy jelly creature produces a viscid net from proteins and cellulose, pumps water through it and filters tiny algae, bacteria and protists from it.

Iron encourages the bloom of tiny algae called phytoplankton, which take in carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in the ocean for photosynthesis; that process in turn draws atmospheric CO2 into the surface waters.

The acid, she explained, is exuded by tiny algae and then works its way up the food chain.

Take, for example, reef - building coral, which contain tiny algae that allow for rapid growth even when nutrient stores are low.

As a result, tiny algae in the sand grew much better.

Ever since he heard about biofuel photobioreactors, Bryan Willson, has seen raw power in tiny algae, nature's fastest - growing organisms.

When coral polyps, which are translucent, get upset, they expel the tiny algae that live in their tissues and give coral its color.

A tiny alga with a mouth could show how they did it

Not exact matches

As an algae biologist I was initially struck by the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.

Seeing these discouraging results, Woodruff and colleague Lonnie Shea, a materials scientist, suggested suspending individual immature follicles in tiny beads of alginate, a substance derived from brown algae and commonly used as an ice cream thickener.

They created a tiny pellet that is easy to digest for growing baby goldfish, small tank fish, and algae eaters.

When these tiny marine algae die or are consumed by predators, their biomass sinks to the ocean interior where it becomes food for other types of bacteria.

To create a new bioink, Gatenholm's team mixed polysaccharides from brown algae and tiny cellulose fibrils from wood or made by bacteria, as well as human chondrocytes, which are cells that build up cartilage.

Now, the robot's first findings are already helping scientists piece together more of this previously hidden under - ice food web, including more evidence of the under - ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans.

But it is fair to say that as algae and other tiny ocean species solve new survival problems, they may force us to do the same.

In April 1998, bay water samples routinely monitored by Chris Scholin, a molecular biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, first showed a tiny rise in an alga called Pseudo-nitzschia australis.

For the ocean's tiny grazing animals, the microscopic algae called diatoms are a favorite food — and like most delicacies, they are turning out to be hazardous.

«They are basically tiny vacuums for algae,» said Lane.

The sand grains are the tiny shells of marine algae that are part of the reef ecosystem.

Tiny bubbles float algae to the water's surface for harvest and processing.

In addition to the microbes tangled together in the granules, they've found that the watery oases also house other bacteria, algae, fungi, single - celled animals called protozoans, and even tiny invertebrate animals including insect larvae, worms and various tardigrades.

The tiny microbe works its magic at near - boiling temperatures, providing the first example of a blue - green alga capable of juggling multiple forms of energy production in such an inhospitable environment.

The only year - round inhabitants are photosynthetic algae and tiny shrimp that thrive in the brine.

Benjamini identified the tiny round shells of foraminifera and fragments of red coralline algae; these marine organisms suggested that the ocean, rather than a river or a flash flood, had been involved.

The answer is tiny organisms known as cyanobacteria, or blue - green algae.

Mycobacterium ulcerans, the bacteria that cause Buruli skin lesions and bone deformities, can thrive in a wide range of wild creatures, especially tiny insects grazing on freshwater algae, says Aaron Morris, now at Imperial College London.

The ocean floor is richly abundant in tiny fossils of the calcified algae species Emiliania huxleyi.

Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now detected evidence of this oceanographic event and an earlier sudden sea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Sea.

Marine algae are so tiny — 50 of them side by side span only the width of a single hair — that they may seem harmless.

The little crustacean «grazers,» some resembling tiny shrimp, are critical in protecting seagrasses from overgrowth by algae, helping keep these aquatic havens healthy for native and economically important species.

In seagrass systems, tiny grazers promote healthy seagrasses by ensuring algae is quickly consumed rather than overgrowing the seagrass.

These tiny, alga - like sea creatures seem utterly defenceless.

In theory, such zooplankton (ZO - plank - tin)-- tiny creatures that eat plant - like algae — could chow down on these toxic algae, reducing the size of a bloom.

They swim with their mouths open, devouring algae, tiny aquatic animals called zooplankton and the eggs of other fish.

Abrupt Rise in Sea Level Delayed the Transition to Agriculture in Southeastern Europe (22/03/2018) Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have detected evidence of this oceanographic event in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Sea.

chloroplast A tiny structure in the cells of green algae and green plants that contain chlorophyll and creates glucose through photosynthesis.

Zooxanthellae are tiny, colourful marine algae, which live inside corals, providing them with much of their colour and, most importantly, their primary supply of energy.

Corals are communities of animals that have tiny photosynthetic algae living inside them in a mutually beneficial relationship.

Phytoplankton — the tiny, green algae at the surface of the ocean — produce airborne gases and organic matter that form marine aerosols.

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabAlgae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabalgae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabalgae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetabalgae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

ENERGYbits has hit the fitness scene with tiny little bits made of spirulina, a blue - green algae.

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Diatomaceous earth is an all - natural powder made from the fossilized remains of tiny, hard - shelled algae called diatoms.

Green Bowl Beach is famous for its algae - covered rocks, although it's a bit hard to find because of the tricky turns tourists have to take down a few tiny roads, and visitors also need to descend hundreds of concrete steps before they can sink their feet into the sand, and feel the cool sea breeze, or swim in its calm, refreshing waters.

Algae has already been forming on the sculptures, signaling the start of a process during which tiny coral polyps begin to transform modern art into life - giving reef.

Dive into this seven - colored sea, and discover that in reality there are more than a thousand colors under the surface; lilac and yellow corals, silvery, red and blue fish, green algae, and countless tiny colored animals.

The painting Music of the Future (2002 - 7) could be called a Caribbean Sunday in the Park with George — all blue - green algae, tiny figures, and anecdotal painterly incident.