Sentence examples for component of marine from inspiring English sources
Cetaceans, as top predators, are an important component of marine ecosystems.
Together, these primary and secondary transportation pathways account for the broad geographic distribution of tephra grains in marine sediments and render tephra an important component of marine sedimentation.
The genus Croceibacter of the family Flavobacteriaceae represents a ubiquitous component of marine bacterioplankton, and is known to be involved in the interaction with phytoplankton.
Understanding risks from the human-mediated spread of non-indigenous species (NIS) is a critical component of marine biosecurity management programmes.
Zooplankton is a central component of marine ecosystems, providing the link between the phytoplankton primary production and higher trophic levels, such as commercially exploited fish stocks.
Dopamine, a component of marine mussel adhesive proteins, plays an important role in various fields such as biosensors, bioelectronics, as well as tissue and pharmaceutical engineering.
Copepods are key components of marine food chains and serve either directly or indirectly as food sources for most commercially important fish species.
This correlation requires more evidence to understand how predation may have affected cetacean evolution, but the occurrence of many large teeth from physeteroid whales in deposits of similar age around the world suggests that, during the Miocene, both "killer sperm whales" and large sharks were important components of marine ecosystems, just as orcas and great white sharks are today.
Artificial reefs are intentionally placed benthic structures intended to protect, enhance, or restore components of marine ecosystems.
The extreme birefringence of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) relative to other major components of marine particulate matter provides a basis for making optical in situ measurements of particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) in seawater.
Both heterotrophic and photoautotrophic members of the group are abundant and ecologically important components of marine planktonic communities.
