... demonstrated an unexpected role of iron in regulating biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic. ... production of the high-latitude (>50 degrees N) North Atlantic Ocean. Here, winter ...
... a Biopesticides Champion in 2006. This has led to a modest increase in the number of biological products being registered, with others in the pipeline.
The researchers pinpointed a lack of mutual ...
... purposes were excluded.
A total of 174 biological medicinal products obtained approval during the study ... regulatory actions were issued for 41 of the 174 biologicals (23.6 percent). These included 46 ...
... published January 29, 2009, in the journal Nature. Scientists have generally accepted the fact that biological productivity in large areas of the Southern Ocean is limited by the supply of iron, an ...
... synthetic biology. According to Rodemeyer, initial synthetic biology products will be relatively simple modifications of current technology and can be addressed by existing biotechnology regulations ...
... s external (non-recycled) nitrogen supply and up to three per cent of the annual new marine biological production.
While the increased biological activity has the beneficial effect of drawing ...
... way they can deduce, for instance, whether a changing ice cover affects the system's biological productivity. The copepod Oithona similes which lives both in the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean and also ...
... waters near Hawaii that lack the nitrogen and phosphorous necessary to support high biological production. The researchers are harnessing the power of the ocean to conduct their experiments, using ...
... for all forms of life, nitrogen fixation is a major factor controlling overall biological productivity in the oceans.
The new microbe is one of the most abundant nitrogen fixers in many parts of the ...
... are stripped from the ocean by the process of denitrification. This in turn would shift biological production in the lighted surface layers of the ocean toward plankton species that are able to fix ...
... major source of food for the shrimp larvae - in each location using satellite images that show biological productivity in surface waters, commonly called ocean color.
"In the Gulf of Maine we have ...
... air and water samples in the search for a link between Saharan dust storms and the biological productivity of the ocean. The results were intriguing: the waters off Cape Verde contain huge amounts of ...
... and global warming giving rise to increased ocean stratification, this style of (marine biological) production may become of increasing importance."
However, thin accumulations of earthborn sediment ...
Rising temperature may lower biological productivity overall but could boost some fisheries
... could also mean a new paradigm for life in the sea. "The waters at high latitudes are some of the most biologically productive in the world because of the presence of sea ice," Comiso added. "Many of ...