Sentences with phrase «together as algae»

Water is a major concern, as is the use of nitrogen fertilizers to stimulate growth of cyanobacteria and microalgae — two microorganisms typically lumped together as algae biofuels.

Not exact matches

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.

The insect also likes a party: In late winter or early spring, these bugs sometimes form huge colonies, as wide as a yard, with millions of individuals migrating together like a superorganism, devouring the algae that grow on wet, decomposing leaf litter in the melting snow, Schulz explains.

«What we think of as coral are really the animal host, symbiotic algae and symbiotic microbes all living together.

(Sometimes known as blue - green algae or blue - green bacteria, these microorganisms were grouped together with algae until just a few years ago.)

«But the picture for coral reefs as a whole isn't quite so straightforward, as the «glue» that holds coral reefs together — coralline algae — appear to be vulnerable to rising acidity,» Professor McCulloch explains.

At least one variety — which plays a critical role in reef systems by acting as the «glue» that binds them together — known as coralline algae, lacks the resistance.