Search results for dissolved organic
Voracious sponges save reef
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ...
Study: Fallen leaves found less polluting
Mar 21, 2007 |
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U.S. government scientists say freshly fallen leaves contribute less to the levels of carbon in mineral soil than was previously believed.
Dissolved organic matter in the water column may influence coral health
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Mar 04, 2008 |
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Bacterial communities endemic to healthy corals could change depending on the amount and type of natural and man-made dissolved organic matter in seawater, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin Marine ...
Mapping nutrient distributions over the Atlantic Ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools - dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus (DON and DOP) have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led ...
Scientists expand understanding of how river carbon impacts the Arctic Ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2008 |
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Arctic rivers transport huge quantities of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the Arctic Ocean. The prevailing paradigm regarding DOC in arctic rivers is that it is largely refractory, making it of little significance for ...
Mangroves importance and decline studied
Feb 27, 2006 |
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Scientists say mangroves, the backbone of tropical ocean coastlines, are far more important to the global ocean's biosphere than previously thought.
Geobiologists propose that the earliest complex organisms fed by absorbing ocean buffet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms -- living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago - likely fed by osmosis.
Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.
Don't judge a brook by its color -- brown waters are more natural
Nov 21, 2007 |
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Over the last 20 years lakes and streams in remote parts of the UK, southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have been increasingly stained brown by dissolved organic matter. In this week’s Nature journal (22 Novemb ...
Alpine lakes beginning to show effects of climate change
Aug 26, 2008 |
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A recent study forecasts that increased climatic variability poses serious consequence for both the biodiversity and ecosystem function of high-elevation lakes.
Impact of floods on soils
Apr 08, 2009 |
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A recent study conducted in the Midwestern United States examined the effects of harsh wet conditions on both cultivated and uncultivated soils, vastly advancing the knowledge of water's effects on aggregation. Soil aggregation ...
Tropical plants go with the flow ... of nitrogen
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May 07, 2007 |
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Tropical plants are able to adapt to environmental change by extracting nitrogen from a variety of sources, according to a new study that appears in the May 7 early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Scientists study a magnetic makeover
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Victoria have discovered new lightweight magnets that could be used in making everything from extra-thin magnetic computer memory to ultra-light spacecraft parts. A paper on the study will ...
Researchers study role of natural organic matter in environment
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2006 |
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The decomposition of plant, animal and microbial material in soil and water produces a variety of complex organic molecules, collectively called natural organic matter. These compounds play many important roles in the environment.
Drop in acid rain altering Appalachian stream water
Dec 12, 2006 |
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Appalachian hardwood forests may be getting a respite from acid rain but data from a long-term ecological study of stream chemistry suggests that the drop in acid rain may be changing biological activity in the ecosystem ...
