(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cestode infections include diphyllobothriasis transmitted by both fresh water fish and fish from brackish waters.
(2) This paper intends to be a contribution to the study of the reproduction of the Rivulus cylindraceus, living in brackish waters of canals close to the coasts.
(3) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(4) Rainbow trout held in brackish water (15 parts per thousand) were starved or fed different amounts of food.
(5) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(6) Based on a comparison of the individual acute values for chinook salmon to the expected environmental concentrations, the margin of safety for boron was only 56 in fresh and 46 in brackish water.
(7) farauti 1 which was often found breeding within 100 m of the sea in either brackish or freshwater habitats.
(8) The incidence of some of these infections could be lowered if people took care to avoid eating undercooked seafood, swimming in brackish water, or sustaining lacerations in a marine environment.
(9) Vibrio cholerae, an autochthonous member of brackish water and estuarine bacterial communities, also attaches to crustacea, a significant factor in multiplication and survival of V. cholerae in nature.
(10) An outbreak of poisoning from ingestion of purple clam (Hiatula diphos), obtained from a brackish fish-culture pond, occurred in southern Taiwan in early January 1986.
(11) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
(12) Larvae of the other 2 species were not found in brackish water which accords with previous laboratory observations of their lower salinity tolerance.
(13) and fecal coliforms in a cove receiving sewage treatment effluent and draining into a brackish lagoon were studied for 34 months with sampling at six stations.
(14) The meals consisted of Finnish freshwater fish (87%) (vendace, pike, perch and rainbow trout) and brackish water fish (13%) (Baltic herring) that provided about 1 g of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids per day (0.25 g eicosapentaenoic acid and 0.55 g docosahexaenoic acid).
(15) With the river, plain and brackish pools there was abundant food including prey animals, shellfish and edible plants.
(16) Rediae of 2 size groups were present in the digestive gland of the brackish-water snail, Cerithidea californica.
(17) Fresh water was running out, and the share of brackish water was rising.
(18) Its larvae, living in brackish waters of coastal lagoons, can devour those of Ceratopogonidae and at least young stages of those of Mosquitoes whose some halophilic species are dangerous vectors of diseases.
(19) On this occasion, this species was found in a pound of brackish water and abundant vegetation, known as La Redonda, located in the Morón municipality, Ciego de Avila.
(20) In general, young fish tested in fresh water were more sensitive to the individual elements and the two mixtures than were advanced fry tested in brackish water.
Estuaries
Definition:
(pl. ) of Estuary
Example Sentences:
(1) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(2) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
(3) However, other unidentified factors appear to influence its presence in certain areas of the estuary.
(4) The avian blood fluke, Austrobilharzia terrigalensis (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae), is recorded in Western Australia for the first time, and is implicated as the cause of dermatitis among users of the Swan estuary in Perth.
(5) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(6) These hosts were examined from twelve different salt marshes and estuaries around the coasts of France (seven on the Channel, three on the Atlantic Ocean and two on the Mediterranean sea).
(7) From tackling harmful chemicals that damage the ozone layer to cracking down on the black-market ivory trade, the UK has a strong track record in driving up environmental standards across Europe.” Environmentalists said they feared a developmental free-for-all on sites shielded by the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, including Snowdonia, the Lake District, the Thames estuary, the North Yorkshire Moors, Scotland’s Flow Country and Dartmoor.
(8) Colloidal organic matter in natural water systems (lakes, rivers, estuaries and the oceans, as well as groundwater) may serve as substrates for the sorption or binding of organic contaminants.
(9) Then last year, Shell pulled out of what would be the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary.
(10) Another of the reports said Heathrow airport would have to close if the estuary scheme went ahead and that Heathrow's owners would have to be paid compensation of between £13.5bn and £21.5bn.
(11) The MCS has warned, however, that fragile coastal habitats such as estuaries, saltmarsh and bird sanctuaries are excluded from any proposed new routes.
(12) The relative importance of migrating eels and suspended particulate material (biotic and abiotic) as transporters of mirex from Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River Estuary is evaluated in the context of a possible adverse impact on the St. Lawrence beluga population.
(13) In 2010, the government rejected a previous proposal for a barrage across the Severn estuary , reiterating plans at the same time to push ahead with Europe's most ambitious fleet of new nuclear reactors .
(14) The presence of so many seals is good news for the Thames Estuary, which was declared biologically dead in the 1950s as a result of heavy pollution, but has since largely recovered.
(15) The London Array will be built in the outer Thames estuary, 12 miles off the Kent and Essex coasts, and when finished will have 271 turbines across a 90 square mile site.
(16) mare and foal left out in todays high tide on loughour estuary The ponies are left unattended during all weather on the loughour estuary, during high tides the foals quite often die.
(17) At electoral ward level regression analyses were suggestive of links between AML and higher social class and living close to estuaries.
(18) More than a half million pounds of DDT were applied to control mosquitoes in salt marsh estuaries of Cape May County, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1966.
(19) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
(20) A small risk of flooding remains in the lower reaches of several slow-moving, major rivers where water from upstream will not finish moving down to estuaries until late on Thursday.