Sentence examples for intertidal organisms from inspiring English sources

Population dynamics of many intertidal organisms are strongly affected by the abundance and distribution of larvae arriving on the shore.

Intertidal organisms are exposed to a suite of fluctuating environmental variables, but the relative influences of these variables on physiology have rarely been disentangled.

Effective in situ plankton traps, which can accurately quantify spatial and temporal variations in larval supply, are a prerequisite for studies of the dynamic interactions between larval delivery, adult population densities and successful larval recruitment of rocky intertidal organisms.

This study assesses the influence of globally-abundant intertidal organisms, barnacles, by measuring the response of limestone, granite and marine-grade concrete colonised with varying percentage covers of Chthamalus spp. under simulated, temperate intertidal conditions.

Using these measurements, I explore the likely effects of brief forces on intertidal organisms in two ways: first, I model a limpet as a mechanical spring-mass-damper system and show that its foot has the capacity to reduce the effective force on the animal.

We collected many well-preserved in situ azooxanthellate corals of Tubastraea coccinea and Rhizotrochus typus at 3.3 6.9 m amsl from sites K13 and K14 (Fig. 9; Table 2) but did not find intertidal organisms such as T. chinensis and S. kegaki.

Future studies using fluctuating PCO2 levels that more closely represent the natural conditions of this intertidal organism will cast further light on intertidal adaptations to hypercapnia.

The population genetic structure of the endemic, rocky shore dwelling Caffrogobius caffer was investigated across a known major oceanographic barrier, Cape Agulhas, which has previously been shown to strongly influence genetic structuring of South African rocky shore and intertidal marine organisms.

Recent meta-analyses of demographic history of intertidal rocky organisms in the northeastern Pacific [ 3] and northwestern Pacific [ 24] also converged on similar finding that majority of the species were not extirpated entirely by the LGM and regional persistence maybe more prevalent.

L. canadensis inhabiting the marine environments in Alaska has access to two major types of prey: intertidal-demersal organisms such as fishes (Cottidae, Hexagrammidae) and crustaceans, and seasonally available schooling pelagic fishes [ 51].

The Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans surveys of intertidal and marine organisms provide information required to monitor the health of near-shore ecosystems.