Sentences with phrase «tiny plants»

Large patches of tiny plants and animals that they feed on will likely move or change in abundance as climate change alters seawater temperature, winds and ocean currents.

Little tiny plants and wee little animals to place in her shadow box.

She suggested a long and narrow container full of tiny plants.

Phytoplankton is the star of Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas, by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm.

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas.

They range from tiny plants to tall trees, but the most widely cultivated species is Moringa Oleifera, which is native to Northern India.

This, along with carbon dating of tiny plant pieces found in the mud, will allow the team to put firm dates at points along the mud core, calibrating it in time.

«Tiny plants ride on the coattails of migratory birds: Migrant birds may be virtual dispersal highways for plants.»

Archaeologists can now detect ancient maize even when cobs and kernels have long rotted away, via tiny plant fragments called phytoliths, minute pieces of silica that build up in plant tissues.

Gang was shocked to see the devastation tiny plant viruses could cause crops and he wanted to understand how they work.

Rows of tiny plants dot the fields, chickens strut around in a pasture, and, to the south, wind rushes through some hillside eucalyptus trees.

Dinoflagellates are tiny plants which live in the sea and obtain energy from sunlight during the day.

His intensely linear work typically disrupts proportions so that tiny plants become massive, and trees shrink, creating an unsettling experience that leads the viewer to a «cognitive landscape» lying beyond the image plane.

The blooms of tiny plants appear to peak earlier in Arctic waters with decreasing sea ice.

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.

In our oceans tiny plants and animals, plankton, incorporate the calcium and carbonic acid into shells of calcium carbonate.

For example, while reading aloud Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas, pause to record with students the details learned about the importance of plankton in the ocean's ecosystem and on earth in general.

Not long afterward, Bang partnered with Penny Chisholm, an ecology professor at MIT, to write the next title in the Sunlight series, Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life (2009), followed by Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas (2012), and Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth (2014).

Communities of tiny plants and organisms protect arid landscapes.

The plants are native to just a small section of North Carolina and South Carolina, but these tiny plants can now be found around the world.

Balmy ocean waters are putting the squeeze on phytoplankton, tiny plants that collectively fix as much carbon dioxide as all terrestrial greenery combined.

Instead, as suggested by the trickle - up theory of salmon restoration, the plankton tends to get eaten by tiny animals, which are then eaten by larger animals until, ultimately, all or most of the CO2 sucked up by the tiny plants during their photosynthetic life spans finds its way back to the atmosphere in relatively short order.

The tiny plant can produce «60 percent of its weight as oil under stress,» according to Wyman.

When their samples returned to France, another famous French scientist of the time, Jean - Baptiste Lamarck, come across them and attempted to classify the tiny plant, mistaking it for a member of a family of flowering plants.

Though familiar to humans as an antiseptic, high levels of H2O2 can inhibit the growth of phytoplankton, tiny plants that are the base of many ocean food chains.

These tiny plants, called phytoplankton, are fish food — without them, fish populations drop, and the fishing industries that many coastal regions depend on can collapse.

It was thought that tiny plants and animals generate the vast amounts of carbonate that make up the towers, similar to how coral reefs are formed.

Those shifts most likely stem from the copious quantities of carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel — fired power plants that are changing the climate and, thus, the tiny plants known as phytoplankton that serve as the base of the oceanic food chain.

When the tiny plants die, they decompose, drawing oxygen from the water.

The tiny plants reached this visible level of growth after currents dragged nutrients from the water's depths to its surface.

These growths are marked either by the intense discoloration of the water from the pigments in the algae or by the harm that the «blooms» of these tiny plants can cause.

The teen studied whether the tiny plants could sop up fertilizer pollution.

In the early 1980s, while working as a plant biochemist in New Zealand, Browse began to collaborate with researchers at Michigan State, where work was in progress to study starch synthesis and storage using a tiny plant called Arabidopsis.

The creatures that eat the tiny plants, including fish and tiny animals called zooplankton, have adapted to make the most of these blooms.

A season later and the tiny plant is nearly 12 feet tall.

As a tiny plant springs from the ground, curious bugs watch it grow and marvel in their own buggy language.

Tiny plants, like phytoplankton, should prosper, but that could lead to enormous growth in larger species that feed on the little guys, thus throwing off the balance of nature.

Coral polyps shelter the algae and as the tiny plants photosynthesize they produce sugars the corals rely on for food.

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

Writing as background for their work, Villafañe et al. (2015) note there is a growing interest in determining the effects and impacts of global change on estuaries, citing the works of Bricker et al. (2008), Bianchi and Allison (2009) and Gillanders et al. (2011), particularly with respect to phytoplankton, given that the tiny plants are responsible for a large share of the primary production in such waters.

«If you have a lot of tiny plants, the landscape may need to be scaled down,» says landscape architect and author Billy Goodnick.

Tiny plants, perhaps succulents, have been strategically planted between the stepping - stones.

The tiny plants last for a long time and require little care, making them the perfect addition to a summery tablescape.