Sentences with phrase «tiny ocean organisms»

brings up tiny ocean organisms, minerals, and other nutrients from the deeper layers of the water.

upwelling wind blows, moves water away, causes new water to rise up to replace it brings up tiny ocean organisms, minerals, and other nutrients from the deeper layers of the water.

Not exact matches

Phytoplankton, tiny photosynthesizing organisms that bloom in the nutrient - rich waters of the Southern Ocean, suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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.

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

During the Ediacarans» latter days, the first tiny organisms with calcified shells began to populate the oceans.

And it increases the amount of light reaching Arctic surface waters, spurring the growth of phytoplankton, tiny organisms that form the base of the Arctic ocean food chain.

«We think of plankton as the tiny alphabet soup of the ocean, floating around passively while larger organisms eat it,» says biologist Gregory Gavelis, who lead the study while a researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

In environments like Antarctica that seldom preserve foraminifera — tiny organisms whose shells are the gold standard for dating ocean sediments — researchers have relied on dating bulk organic matter.

Lennart Bach, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel investigates a tiny organism that can hardly be seen with the naked eye — and is still visible from space.

The rain then interacts with silicate - rocks and forms carbonate rocks in the silicate weathering process — or, in a planet that is so filled with life as ours, tiny organisms can grab the carbon - dioxide dissolved in the ocean to build shells or coral reefs.

A well - known issue with LGM proxies is that the most abundant type of proxy data, using the species composition of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, probably underestimates sea surface cooling over vast stretches of the tropical oceans; other methods like alkenone and Mg / Ca ratios give colder temperatures (but aren't all coherent either).

Corals and tiny fossilised marine organisms buried in the seabed act as natural recorders of past ocean temperatures.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

(singular: archaeon) a group of tiny organisms often living in extreme environments, such as ocean vents and salt lakes.

Marine phytoplankton, which are tiny organisms that rely on light to grow and spread into globs in the ocean, influence how clouds accumulate droplets.

Plankton, the tiny organisms at the bottom of the ocean food chain that so much of marine life depends on, drift with the ocean currents, but sometimes come together in dense patches under the surface that can later rise to the surface as red tides.

Plant growth on land fluctuates with the seasons; so does the blooming of phytoplankton — tiny plant - like organisms in the oceans.

The aragonite, a crystal form of calcium carbonate, formed by tiny organisms then become too corroded to survive in high - pressure or cold waters including some parts of the shallow North Pacific, the southern ocean and the deepest waters of the ocean.

The rare Manhattan - sized icebergs, which may become more frequent in coming decades because of climate change, release a vast trail of iron and other nutrients that act as fertilisers for algae and other tiny plant - like organisms in the ocean.