Sentence examples for aquatic structure from inspiring English sources

The interaction of short and longwave radiation and their partitioning through ecosystems is complex with terrestrial canopies and aquatic structure both connecting above- and below-ground processes via energy fluxes.

Antifouling paints are used to reduce the attachment of living organisms to the submerged surfaces of ships, boats and aquatic structures, usually by the release of a biocide.

Designer Ken Oltheius dreamed up the Floating Ship Terminal as a series of sustainable aquatic structures, and lined the terminal with photovoltaic cells to give the structure its own power supply.

Main effects of human-induced barriers are: (1) modification of abiotic conditions [ 4], (2) disruption of population and aquatic community structure in subsequent habitats [ 5- 7] as well as (3) disruption of gene flow [ 8] and (4) biodiversity loss [ 9].

Studies which have examined the effects of low-level pharmaceutical exposure on aquatic ecosystem structure and functioning are rare but have indicated that pharmaceuticals can display significant effects on important ecosystem services.

It is unknown if or how animal mediated dispersal impacts aquatic hyphomycete population structure.

We used non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMS) to evaluate variation in aquatic-invertebrate assemblage structure across a disturbance gradient.

This subset of variables was used to evaluate the effect of changes in the flow regime on aquatic-invertebrate assemblage structure at 856 biomonitoring sites.

For example, wind running over the surface of a lake creates turbulence, mixing the water column and influencing the environmental profile to create thermally layered zones, affecting how fish, algae, and other parts of the aquatic ecosystem are structured.

At present, there is insufficient data on the link between hydrological, water quality factors and the changes in the structure of aquatic communities to allow any meaningful study of driving factors of aquatic ecosystems.

It is not certain that the individual characteristics of an aquatic ecosystem influence community structure, but rather the amalgamation of certain characteristics.