Sentences with phrase «with plankton»

Recent studies have shown that the water surrounding icebergs teems with plankton, fish, and other sea life.

All the other factors you attribute are ages old and so far as one can tell, have not significantly altered in any way correlated with this plankton clearing.

Seeding the ocean with plankton would only open yet another can of worms.

But our impact pales in comparison with plankton.

Kudzu in Georgia, Salt Cedars on the Rio Grande, tumbleweed from Kansas to Texas, africanized bees across the US — shall we do to the oceans with plankton what we have done with all our other «good ideas?»

The ocean model I used does carbon chemistry, with plankton and gas exchange and all that.

For example, the uniform lowering of tropical snowline by about 900 meters during the Last Glacial Maximum is generally attributed to cooling [Porter 2001], and indeed provided the first indication that something was wrong with plankton - based estimates of tropical cooling during the glacial period.

Visibility variation is less seasonal and more associated with plankton blooms which occur frequently, especially around full moon, and bring in the big fish.

Named The Passage, this dive site is a current highway with plankton rich water which means mantas can be seen feeding here along with mobula rays as well as tuna and jacks.

Alternatively, take the snorkeling day tour mentioned above and your last stop will be to swim with the plankton on one of the deserted beaches.

Krill along with plankton make up the largest biomass on earth, one of the most easily renewable food resources available.

The old houses, often more than a meter across, sink toward the ocean bottom carrying with them plankton and other biological tidbits snagged in their goo.

Many fish, along with plankton and shrimp, live and feed within loose mats of Sargassum that float near the water surface.

Not exact matches

With more plastic than plankton at the center of the seas, marine life is consuming this waste.

Under Grannis, the DEC came up with the brilliant idea of closing Indian Point power plant, which produces 1/3 of NYC's electricity, in order to protect plankton and fish eggs in 1 percent of the Hudson's water.

The Dino Sphere is an incredible, living object that's filled with thousands of non-toxic plankton organisms called Dinoflagellates.

But with our study we show that warmer temperatures directly impact the chemical cycles in plankton, which has not been shown before.»

Other proposals include: fertilizing the ocean with iron to help plankton clean up our mess and the aforementioned manmade volcano.

Finding the answer would fill a major gap in the history of eukaryotes (literally, cells with a «true nucleus»), which in the space of two billion years have populated the world with everything from singled - celled amoeba and plankton to pine trees, scientists and, of course, elephants.

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.

In experimental buffets with fed or hungry polyps, the nudibranchs ate faster when polyps were fat with just - caught plankton.

The ash, it turned out, had fertilized the ocean with thousands of tons of iron, on which the plankton gorged.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

It's coincidentally one of the best - studied ocean regions in the world, with data on plankton going back over 50 years.

Anything with a calcium carbonate shell, from microscopic plankton to clams and oysters to pteropods.

Mussels have caused high mortality in native Unionid clams (though some clams seem able to coexist with zebra mussels), altered the makeup of populations living at the bottom of the waterways and reduced plankton communities.

if we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew

While a professor at the University of Kiel, Hensen led a detailed survey of Atlantic plankton — which include algae, bacteria, protozoans, crustaceans, mollusks, and coelenterates — that drift with ocean currents.

«The way carbon gets buried usually starts with photosynthesis, through which carbon dioxide is converted to organic material in the form of plankton, marsh grass, mangroves, or sea grass,» he said.

But time is short, Pauly urges: «If things go unchecked, we might end up with a marine junkyard dominated by plankton.»

«Combined with warmer ocean temperatures throughout the year, this leads to a longer growing season and faster plankton growth rates.

In his letter on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), Graham Cox suggests it could be used to fertilise surface waters with nutrient - rich deep water to promote plankton growth for carbon capture (1 December, p 31).

It propels itself through the water with its wings to scoop up krill and plankton, but it also flies — laboriously.

The working group on coupled biogeochemical cycling and controlling factors dealt with questions regarding the role of plankton diversity, how ocean biogeochemistry will respond to global changes on decadal to centennial time scales, the key biogeochemical links between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate, and the role of estuaries, shelves, and marginal seas in the capturing, transformation, and exchange of terrestrial and open - marine material.

The hollow, cylindrical polyps of the coral Stylophora pistillata gather plankton with their tiny tentacles.

The team's estimate of the amount of sinking carbon contributed by mixotrophs appears to agree with recent observations of carbon flux by mixotrophic plankton in the North Atlantic.

But invisible changes may be the most threatening to human food sources, beginning with the tiny species like plankton that inhabit the bottom of the oceans» food chain.

Warm - water species, such as leaner plankton species often associated with subtropical waters, have lingered in these more - northern zones.

An international team led by Thijs Vandenbroucke (researcher at the French CNRS and invited professor at UGent) and Poul Emsbo (US Geological Survey) initiated a study to investigate a little known association between «teratological» or «malformed» fossil plankton assemblages coincident with the initial stages of these extinction events.

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.

This is a blow to some supporters of geo - engineering, who have suggested that one way to tackle climate change is large - scale seeding of the oceans with iron to stimulate plankton to absorb more carbon dioxide.

So the eruption in 2010 of an Icelandic volcano gave scientists a perfect opportunity to see how much the cataclysm helped the plankton by showering them with unexpected clouds of iron.

This has led to suggestions that we should fertilise the oceans with iron to promote plankton growth and stem climate change.

The sponge's cells, its calcium carbonate or glasslike silica spicules, and the mass of collagen that forms its visible body all create a network of tunnels and chambers, with little flailing hairs called cilia on the walls that wave the water through and filter out plankton and waste.

Fertilizing the ocean with iron to promote plankton blooms also gets high marks for danger because of the potential for unintended ecosystem impacts.

To test this, Rick Relyea, a biologist at the University of Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, simulated a pond ecosystem by filling 1000 - liter tanks with well water, plankton, various tadpole species, and other organisms at the same densities found in nature.

After being absorbed by plankton, the mercury moves up the food chain: The plankton is eaten by small fish, which are then gobbled up by larger predators, each bigger animal accumulating more mercury with every meal.

Taketeru Tomita of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues have looked at the mechanics of its jaw to find out whether it actively sucks plankton in, or just swims through clouds of them with its mouth open and hopes for the best — a technique called ram feeding.

Though plankton drift with the ocean currents, that doesn't mean they're incapable of any movement.

BURY IT UNDER THE SEA Some research groups have tried fertilizing the ocean with iron to encourage massive plankton blooms that suck carbon dioxide from the air.