Cape Peninsula Marine Park
... The Cape Peninsula is an area of exceptional marine and coastal biodiversity. It lies at the junction of two major oceanic systems and supports a highly diverse fauna and flora comprising numerous endemic species. Ever increasing pressure is being placed on these resources by commercial, recreationa ...
... The Cape Peninsula is an area of exceptional marine and coastal biodiversity. It lies at the junction of two major oceanic systems and supports a highly diverse fauna and flora comprising numerous endemic species. Ever increasing pressure is being placed on these resources by commercial, recreationa ...
article (Open Access)
... Randall & Bowen, 2012 or E. sadina (Mitchill, 1814) due to high similarity or change in its identification. Invasions of non-native species in the ocean can profoundly reshape indigenous communities, impact conservation strategies, and affect human health and the economy (Rilov and Crooks 2009). The ...
... Randall & Bowen, 2012 or E. sadina (Mitchill, 1814) due to high similarity or change in its identification. Invasions of non-native species in the ocean can profoundly reshape indigenous communities, impact conservation strategies, and affect human health and the economy (Rilov and Crooks 2009). The ...
Interdisciplinary oceanographic observations
... there remain major spectral gaps in our sampling. Thus, undersampling presents the main limitation to our understanding of global climate change; variability in fish biomass and regime shifts; and episodic and extreme events. Fortunately, recent advances in ocean platforms and in situ autonomous sam ...
... there remain major spectral gaps in our sampling. Thus, undersampling presents the main limitation to our understanding of global climate change; variability in fish biomass and regime shifts; and episodic and extreme events. Fortunately, recent advances in ocean platforms and in situ autonomous sam ...
The pelagic distribution of marine birds in a heterogeneous
... features, or between years at the same feature. For example, phalaropes (PhaEaropus) during their ‘pelagic’ stage have been found to concentrate at frontal areas and upwellings associated with major boundary currents off California (Briggs et al. 1984), Peru (Brown 1980a), the southeastern (Haney 19 ...
... features, or between years at the same feature. For example, phalaropes (PhaEaropus) during their ‘pelagic’ stage have been found to concentrate at frontal areas and upwellings associated with major boundary currents off California (Briggs et al. 1984), Peru (Brown 1980a), the southeastern (Haney 19 ...
The Baltic Sea - European Environment Agency
... from the Skagerrak to the Baltic Sea. Persistent westerly winds can generate large shortterm inflows of higher salinity. The interval between such episodes may be several years, but they can have significant ecological effects. The distribution of plant and animal species is profoundly influenced by ...
... from the Skagerrak to the Baltic Sea. Persistent westerly winds can generate large shortterm inflows of higher salinity. The interval between such episodes may be several years, but they can have significant ecological effects. The distribution of plant and animal species is profoundly influenced by ...
Mise en page 1 - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
... change. Urgent action is needed to revert the decline of these globally significant diverse and productive marine ecosystems. Forty-five marine sites have now been inscribed on the World Heritage List, covering about 1.5 million km2 of the ocean surface – an area about the size of the Gulf of Mexico ...
... change. Urgent action is needed to revert the decline of these globally significant diverse and productive marine ecosystems. Forty-five marine sites have now been inscribed on the World Heritage List, covering about 1.5 million km2 of the ocean surface – an area about the size of the Gulf of Mexico ...
Assessing marine world heritage from an ecosystem
... change. Urgent action is needed to revert the decline of these globally significant diverse and productive marine ecosystems. Forty-five marine sites have now been inscribed on the World Heritage List, covering about 1.5 million km2 of the ocean surface – an area about the size of the Gulf of Mexico ...
... change. Urgent action is needed to revert the decline of these globally significant diverse and productive marine ecosystems. Forty-five marine sites have now been inscribed on the World Heritage List, covering about 1.5 million km2 of the ocean surface – an area about the size of the Gulf of Mexico ...
Hawaiian Monk Seals and Toxoplasma gondii
... and seawater for months and have been shown to accumulate in filter-feeding invertebrates that live along the sea floor where monk seals also often feed. Thus, Hawaiian monk seals have the potential to ingest eggs through consuming normal prey or directly from the water. In addition, T. gondii can e ...
... and seawater for months and have been shown to accumulate in filter-feeding invertebrates that live along the sea floor where monk seals also often feed. Thus, Hawaiian monk seals have the potential to ingest eggs through consuming normal prey or directly from the water. In addition, T. gondii can e ...
Sediments Are Historical Records of Ocean
... In this chapter you learned that the sediments covering nearly all of the seafloor are parts of the great cycles of formation and destruction assured by Earth’s hot interior. Marine sediment is composed of particles from land, from biological activity in the ocean, from chemical processes within wat ...
... In this chapter you learned that the sediments covering nearly all of the seafloor are parts of the great cycles of formation and destruction assured by Earth’s hot interior. Marine sediment is composed of particles from land, from biological activity in the ocean, from chemical processes within wat ...
The ICES North Sea Benthos Project 2000: aims - Archimer
... Macroinfaunal communities are especially suited to comparative investigations of the status of benthic ecosystems, because many of the constituent species are of low mobility, relatively long-lived, and integrate effects of environmental changes over time. Sampling and analytical methodologies, and ...
... Macroinfaunal communities are especially suited to comparative investigations of the status of benthic ecosystems, because many of the constituent species are of low mobility, relatively long-lived, and integrate effects of environmental changes over time. Sampling and analytical methodologies, and ...
Spaceborne active remote sensing missions
... warming. Monitoring this level is an application of altimetry, and one of the main issue in Environmental sciences of the 21st century. It is quite difficult to separate the natural variability of the climate from the warming effects. The measurements of the mean sea levels are derived from a period ...
... warming. Monitoring this level is an application of altimetry, and one of the main issue in Environmental sciences of the 21st century. It is quite difficult to separate the natural variability of the climate from the warming effects. The measurements of the mean sea levels are derived from a period ...
The 4th Asian/13th Korea-Japan Workshop on Ocean Color
... Understanding in earth and ocean environments like never before is possible because of satellite technology that can provides synoptic view of environmental changes both in spatial and temporal aspects. This state-of-the-art technology is undoubtedly very useful for the study of global climate chang ...
... Understanding in earth and ocean environments like never before is possible because of satellite technology that can provides synoptic view of environmental changes both in spatial and temporal aspects. This state-of-the-art technology is undoubtedly very useful for the study of global climate chang ...
Title The Marine Strategy Framework Directive: A new
... framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) OJ L 164/19, 25.6.2008. For commentary on this Directive from a political science perspective, see, L. Juda “The European Union and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Continuing the ...
... framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) OJ L 164/19, 25.6.2008. For commentary on this Directive from a political science perspective, see, L. Juda “The European Union and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Continuing the ...
Title The Marine Strategy Framework Directive: A new European
... framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) OJ L 164/19, 25.6.2008. For commentary on this Directive from a political science perspective, see, L. Juda “The European Union and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Continuing the ...
... framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) OJ L 164/19, 25.6.2008. For commentary on this Directive from a political science perspective, see, L. Juda “The European Union and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Continuing the ...
Title The Marine Strategy Framework Directive: A new European
... framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) OJ L 164/19, 25.6.2008. For commentary on this Directive from a political science perspective, see, L. Juda “The European Union and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Continuing the ...
... framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) OJ L 164/19, 25.6.2008. For commentary on this Directive from a political science perspective, see, L. Juda “The European Union and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Continuing the ...
IV. Review of previous analysis of options for preventing and
... This note relied mainly on the synthesis of available literature and on lessons learned from experience as reported in various sources for the analysis of the potential applicability of certain management and conservation techniques. The information sources for this report include journal articles; ...
... This note relied mainly on the synthesis of available literature and on lessons learned from experience as reported in various sources for the analysis of the potential applicability of certain management and conservation techniques. The information sources for this report include journal articles; ...
Presentations - Centre for Marine Biodiversity
... Coral reefs are the big cities of the sea. One-fourth of all known marine species live in reefs, including fish and thou-sands of kinds of plants and micro-organisms. Reefs are critically important to our planet's ecosystem. (There are three primary coral habitats along the Sudanese coastline: barri ...
... Coral reefs are the big cities of the sea. One-fourth of all known marine species live in reefs, including fish and thou-sands of kinds of plants and micro-organisms. Reefs are critically important to our planet's ecosystem. (There are three primary coral habitats along the Sudanese coastline: barri ...
Coral reef crisis in deep and shallow reefs: 30 years of
... Colony numbers differed between shallow and deep reefs when analysed over time (Fig. 1; significant interaction between depth and time; F4,56=3.75, p=0.009). When analysed separately, we found that over the last three decades there has been a strong decrease (F4,28=5.94, p=0.001) over time in the numb ...
... Colony numbers differed between shallow and deep reefs when analysed over time (Fig. 1; significant interaction between depth and time; F4,56=3.75, p=0.009). When analysed separately, we found that over the last three decades there has been a strong decrease (F4,28=5.94, p=0.001) over time in the numb ...
Chapter 23 Vocabulary- The Ocean Floor Read each definition
... Chapter 23 Vocabulary- The Ocean Floor Read each definition, rewrite the definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS, and then draw a picture to illustrate the definition. Abyssal hill: One of a series of small rolling hills on the ocean floor that occur next to continental margins or ridges. ...
... Chapter 23 Vocabulary- The Ocean Floor Read each definition, rewrite the definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS, and then draw a picture to illustrate the definition. Abyssal hill: One of a series of small rolling hills on the ocean floor that occur next to continental margins or ridges. ...
Education Ph.D., Oceanography – 1990 Marine Hydrophysical
... Processing and analysis of the meteorological and oceanographic data from the Cape Wind Scientific Tower installed in the Nantucket Sound; data reporting. Analysis of Extremal Currents and Fatigue Current Profiles at the Merah Besar and Ranggas Locations in the Makassar Strait, 2003-04, for Unocal C ...
... Processing and analysis of the meteorological and oceanographic data from the Cape Wind Scientific Tower installed in the Nantucket Sound; data reporting. Analysis of Extremal Currents and Fatigue Current Profiles at the Merah Besar and Ranggas Locations in the Makassar Strait, 2003-04, for Unocal C ...
State of the Marine Environment Report for the
... “State of Marine Environment Report for the NOWPAP region” (SOMER-2). First “State of Marine Environment Report for the NOWPAP region” (SOMER) has been compiled by POMRAC in close cooperation with other RACs in 2006 and published in 2007. The main goal of that report was to give a holistic descripti ...
... “State of Marine Environment Report for the NOWPAP region” (SOMER-2). First “State of Marine Environment Report for the NOWPAP region” (SOMER) has been compiled by POMRAC in close cooperation with other RACs in 2006 and published in 2007. The main goal of that report was to give a holistic descripti ...
WGICA - ICES
... The fluxes and properties of water through the Atlantic and Pacific gateways need also to be taken into account when addressing physical and biological variability of the basins of the Arctic Ocean. The thematic scope of an IEA should include three main pressures or human activities: climate change, ...
... The fluxes and properties of water through the Atlantic and Pacific gateways need also to be taken into account when addressing physical and biological variability of the basins of the Arctic Ocean. The thematic scope of an IEA should include three main pressures or human activities: climate change, ...
Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. Marine biology differs from marine ecology as marine ecology is focused on how organisms interact with each other and the environment, while biology is the study of the organisms themselves.A large proportion of all life on Earth lives in the ocean. Exactly how large the proportion is unknown, since many ocean species are still to be discovered. The ocean is a complex three-dimensional world covering about 71% of the Earth's surface. The habitats studied in marine biology include everything from the tiny layers of surface water in which organisms and abiotic items may be trapped in surface tension between the ocean and atmosphere, to the depths of the oceanic trenches, sometimes 10,000 meters or more beneath the surface of the ocean. Specific habitats include coral reefs, kelp forests, seagrass meadows, the surrounds of seamounts and thermal vents, tidepools, muddy, sandy and rocky bottoms, and the open ocean (pelagic) zone, where solid objects are rare and the surface of the water is the only visible boundary. The organisms studied range from microscopic phytoplankton and zooplankton to huge cetaceans (whales) 30 meters (98 feet) in length.Marine life is a vast resource, providing food, medicine, and raw materials, in addition to helping to support recreation and tourism all over the world. At a fundamental level, marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet. Marine organisms contribute significantly to the oxygen cycle, and are involved in the regulation of the Earth's climate. Shorelines are in part shaped and protected by marine life, and some marine organisms even help create new land.Many species are economically important to humans, including food fish (both finfish and shellfish). It is also becoming understood that the well-being of marine organisms and other organisms are linked in very fundamental ways. The human body of knowledge regarding the relationship between life in the sea and important cycles is rapidly growing, with new discoveries being made nearly every day. These cycles include those of matter (such as the carbon cycle) and of air (such as Earth's respiration, and movement of energy through ecosystems including the ocean). Large areas beneath the ocean surface still remain effectively unexplored.