Sentences with phrase «where plankton»

Cool winds mix the upper ocean, keeping more nutrients in the sunlight, where plankton can use them to grow and breed.

Flying fish are abundant in most of the world's oceans, particularly in subtropical waters where plankton blooms, which they eat, are most bountiful.

We could build a fleet of robotic submersibles that would dive deep down into the dark and capture organic material that contains iron that would otherwise settle to the bottom, and bring it up and digest it and release the iron into the brightly sunlit water where plankton require it.

The eddies also supply nutrients to coastal zones and the surface ocean where plankton blooms may result.

In places like the North Atlantic, where plankton bloom lushly in the spring, oceanographers find patches of green stuff on the ocean bed, a mile or two below.

They are spotted where plankton - rich water upwells and they can feed, but not much is known about what they're eating.

Not exact matches

Organic bivalve shellfish (mussels, clams, oysters) are fed by natural plankton and algae in tidal zones, so this industry is relatively easy in clean oceans, such as those near the south coast of Australia, where there are already certified operators for mussels and oysters.

Chan says that lighter warm water creates a cap over the colder depths, making it less likely that deeper waters — where everything from «plankton to whale poop» sucks up oxygen — will rise to mix with the oxygenated surface.

After maturing, the squid swim several hundred kilometers south to cooler, plankton - rich waters near the Falkland Islands, where international fishing vessels normally catch them in great numbers between February and June.

Plankton, crustaceans and fish, all food for wildlife, reproduce at the dynamic edge of the sea ice, where it floats over shallow near - shore waters.

That's why hydrates, like oil — and like fish — tend to be found along the world's coastlines, where the waters are rich in nutrients and plankton corpses fall like thick snow to the seafloor.

«Knowing their specific prey and if they are following blooms of particular plankton would be a way for us to remotely detect places where we might find these rays.

More fresh water in the surface water layers makes it harder for the nutrient - rich bottom water to rise to the upper layers where the sunlight ensures the production of plankton algae in summer.

With warmer equatorial waters reducing plankton abundance and spurring many fish species, notably bigeye and skipjack tuna, to migrate toward the poles, the waters around Wake and Johnston, 1600 kilometers north of the equator, «are precisely where you want to have a protected area,» says Robert Richmond of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.

Only when we know when and where certain nutrients are available for plankton growth we can also estimate how much carbon the plankton can bind by photosynthesis and thus remove from the atmosphere.»

Researchers at the Algalita Marine Research Foundation documented an increase in plastic debris in the Central Pacific Gyre five-fold between 1997 and 2007, where the baseline in 1997 showed plastic pieces outnumbered plankton on the ocean surface 6:1.4 Photo courtesy NOAA.

Rebecca Fish Ewan is the founder of Plankton Press (where small is big enough) and creates Tiny Joys & GRAPH (feeties) zines.

What's more, Monterey Bay's unique geology produces an area of relatively calm bay waters, where, according to Dr. Griggs, «plankton, small fish, seabirds, whales, and dolphins congregate to share in the food.»

Although there are lots of dive sites in Thailand where you can see whale sharks, the nutrient rich waters contain loads of planktons which attracts whale sharks all the time.

Whale sharks feed on the tiny bits of plankton and swarm the area where the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico waters combine.

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I write this to you from my rubber room, where other inmates have their own ideas such as salting the oceans with iron, leading to a proliferation of algae blooms and possible destruction of plankton and with consequences for life up the food chain.

You can place greater certainty upon the disruption of plankton, pipefish and sand eels by these warmer seas where specific studies show the physiological effects of temperature changes in more detail.

«Southern Ocean acidification via anthropogenic CO2 uptake is expected to be detrimental to multiple calcifying plankton species by lowering the concentration of carbonate ion (CO32 − to levels where calcium carbonate (both aragonite and calcite) shells begin to dissolve.

-- «They are the base of the food chain... if there's no plankton, there's no fish in the oceans... And they take CO2 out of the atmosphere by taking it into the interior of the ocean where it can be stored for thousands of millions of years so they're an essential buffer against climate change due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere»

(c) plankton can operate like a network where some species may specialize in gathering iron (but no one knows that for sure).

So where Latitude says «We know,» he is flat out incorrect, and where he says «plants grow better at higher CO2,» he is leaving out too much from his summary to do anything but mislead, and where he says «which would include plankton,» there too he is flat out ignorant.

There's a lot of attention being given to what happens when the plankton production («primary production» — the first step where photosynthesis occurs).

According to Environment Oregon, there are 100 million tons of plastic trash in the North Pacific concentrated by the ocean's currents into a toxic soup 1000 miles off our coast where plastic outnumbers plankton 40 - to - 1.