Science Requirements For Marine Spatial Planning
... research and monitoring that should extend beyond the borders of the management zone to take into consideration human activities that occur elsewhere (e.g. pollution and overfishing) and ecological factors that influence the management zone. Environmental parameters must then be overlaid with the le ...
... research and monitoring that should extend beyond the borders of the management zone to take into consideration human activities that occur elsewhere (e.g. pollution and overfishing) and ecological factors that influence the management zone. Environmental parameters must then be overlaid with the le ...
Microbial community structure in the
North Pacific ocean
... a remarkably low degree of overlap between communities at each depth. The 444 147 sequence tags analyzed represented 62 975 unique sequences. Of these, 3707 (5.9%) occurred at two depths, and only 298 (0.5%) were observed at all three depths. At this level of phylogenetic resolution, Bacteria divers ...
North Pacific ocean
... a remarkably low degree of overlap between communities at each depth. The 444 147 sequence tags analyzed represented 62 975 unique sequences. Of these, 3707 (5.9%) occurred at two depths, and only 298 (0.5%) were observed at all three depths. At this level of phylogenetic resolution, Bacteria divers ...
Chapter 5 - MBLWHOI Library
... organisms which has led to the establishment of the marine biological stations that have played so large a part in the modern development of theoretical as well as of observational biology in general. . It would be easy enough greatly to extend the foregoing statement of concrete problems that face ...
... organisms which has led to the establishment of the marine biological stations that have played so large a part in the modern development of theoretical as well as of observational biology in general. . It would be easy enough greatly to extend the foregoing statement of concrete problems that face ...
Conditions differ away from shore.
... phytoplankton convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. In fact, phytoplankton convert about as much carbon dioxide into oxygen as all land plants combined. Phytoplankton are an important source of the oxygen that you are breathing right now. Tiny floating animals called zooplankton ...
... phytoplankton convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. In fact, phytoplankton convert about as much carbon dioxide into oxygen as all land plants combined. Phytoplankton are an important source of the oxygen that you are breathing right now. Tiny floating animals called zooplankton ...
information booklet - The Australian Institute of Marine Science
... More than 70 per cent of Australia’s territory is under water and much of this country’s wealth and identity is bound up with its coastline and surrounding oceans. Australia has the potential to be an oceanic and environmental superpower, but its marine territory is yet to be fully explored and unde ...
... More than 70 per cent of Australia’s territory is under water and much of this country’s wealth and identity is bound up with its coastline and surrounding oceans. Australia has the potential to be an oceanic and environmental superpower, but its marine territory is yet to be fully explored and unde ...
Blue Energy
... ç It is estimated that less than 5% of all marine species are known to science (1). ç Marine microbial communities account for a substantial part of the primary production (base of the food chain) in the marine environment and represent more than 90% of the marine biomass. ç Marine microorganisms pl ...
... ç It is estimated that less than 5% of all marine species are known to science (1). ç Marine microbial communities account for a substantial part of the primary production (base of the food chain) in the marine environment and represent more than 90% of the marine biomass. ç Marine microorganisms pl ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Global Islands Network
... biodiversity for the benefit of future generations. They are distinct from terrestrial protected areas by being less about preventing immediate threats or looming extinction and more about precaution and the benefits to industry of preserving types of habitat. ...
... biodiversity for the benefit of future generations. They are distinct from terrestrial protected areas by being less about preventing immediate threats or looming extinction and more about precaution and the benefits to industry of preserving types of habitat. ...
Sources, fate, effects and consequences for the seafood
... and chitin from crustaceans, together with starch, protein, DNA and others, these readily degrade in marine ecosystems. However, manmade polymers are very persistent and widespread and ubiquitous in the marine environment including deep sea habitats down to 5,755 m in the Northwest Pacific. There is ...
... and chitin from crustaceans, together with starch, protein, DNA and others, these readily degrade in marine ecosystems. However, manmade polymers are very persistent and widespread and ubiquitous in the marine environment including deep sea habitats down to 5,755 m in the Northwest Pacific. There is ...
ROCKY INTERTIDAL ECOSYSTEMS
... The study of rock layers is done at a local level and then joined with information from surrounding areas to get a complete geological picture. The finest level of geologic rock division is called a formation and describes rock units exposed at local rock outcrops. A formation is a distinctive serie ...
... The study of rock layers is done at a local level and then joined with information from surrounding areas to get a complete geological picture. The finest level of geologic rock division is called a formation and describes rock units exposed at local rock outcrops. A formation is a distinctive serie ...
Governance of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdictions
... and regional scales, this should not overshadow the broader need for a new governance of the oceans. First, it now appears necessary to base marine environmental management on new principles, resulting from debates on sustainable development, such as the ecosystem approach, the precautionary princip ...
... and regional scales, this should not overshadow the broader need for a new governance of the oceans. First, it now appears necessary to base marine environmental management on new principles, resulting from debates on sustainable development, such as the ecosystem approach, the precautionary princip ...
274 - CIESM
... distribution of surface Chl a. The analyses of satellite measurements obtained from MODIS satellite show a drop in surface chlorophyll for 20%, from Feb 20th to Mar 3rd 2015. The phenomenon of the open sea vertical convection, known for the South Adriatic Pit, is important due to the transport of nu ...
... distribution of surface Chl a. The analyses of satellite measurements obtained from MODIS satellite show a drop in surface chlorophyll for 20%, from Feb 20th to Mar 3rd 2015. The phenomenon of the open sea vertical convection, known for the South Adriatic Pit, is important due to the transport of nu ...
Section 4–4 4–4 Aquatic Ecosystems
... water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for at least part of the year. The water in wetlands may be flowing or standing and fresh, salty, or brackish, which is a mixture of fresh and salt water. Many wetlands are very productive ecosystems that serve as breeding ...
... water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for at least part of the year. The water in wetlands may be flowing or standing and fresh, salty, or brackish, which is a mixture of fresh and salt water. Many wetlands are very productive ecosystems that serve as breeding ...
File
... characteristics that include amount of sunlight, temperature, salinity, and density. Surface zone-shallow area of seawater that gets the most sunlight. Middle zone-Receives only faint blue-green light. Deep zone-No light. Plants do not grow. Some animals make their own light. ...
... characteristics that include amount of sunlight, temperature, salinity, and density. Surface zone-shallow area of seawater that gets the most sunlight. Middle zone-Receives only faint blue-green light. Deep zone-No light. Plants do not grow. Some animals make their own light. ...
Evolutionary mechanisms and diversity in a western Indian Ocean
... the closure of the Tethys Sea in the Miocene and little radiation subsequently. The dominance (90%) of IndoWest Pacific species in the extant WIO coral fauna reflects invasion during the Mio-Pliocene of the younger and more diversified fauna from the West Pacific during the same period. Various line ...
... the closure of the Tethys Sea in the Miocene and little radiation subsequently. The dominance (90%) of IndoWest Pacific species in the extant WIO coral fauna reflects invasion during the Mio-Pliocene of the younger and more diversified fauna from the West Pacific during the same period. Various line ...
Climate Change and the Occurrence of Harmful
... How will harmful microorganisms be affected by ocean warming? Temperature is one of the most important environmental variables affecting the rates of feeding, metabolism, growth, and even life span of fish and other aquatic biota. Because these organisms cannot regulate their body temperatures, thei ...
... How will harmful microorganisms be affected by ocean warming? Temperature is one of the most important environmental variables affecting the rates of feeding, metabolism, growth, and even life span of fish and other aquatic biota. Because these organisms cannot regulate their body temperatures, thei ...
UKSeaMap - Defra Science Search
... types to assess their ecological validity. This was undertaken by predicting the expected biological character, in terms of the range of habitat types, for each landscape type and interfacing the sample data with the landscape maps in GIS to determine the actual relationship. This was assessed at a ...
... types to assess their ecological validity. This was undertaken by predicting the expected biological character, in terms of the range of habitat types, for each landscape type and interfacing the sample data with the landscape maps in GIS to determine the actual relationship. This was assessed at a ...
press kit
... The scientists also showed that the Agulhas “rings” - a natural barrier that draws the line between the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic - separate plankton communities. “It’s like plankton goes through a cold wash cycle at the tip of South Africa,” says Daniele Iudicone from the Stazione Zoologi ...
... The scientists also showed that the Agulhas “rings” - a natural barrier that draws the line between the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic - separate plankton communities. “It’s like plankton goes through a cold wash cycle at the tip of South Africa,” says Daniele Iudicone from the Stazione Zoologi ...
coastal and marine spatial planning – including applications for
... Geoff is currently serving as a faculty member in the School of Fisheries within the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University. In this capacity he is leading a comprehensive review of the School’s Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management Program leading into the development of a new Appl ...
... Geoff is currently serving as a faculty member in the School of Fisheries within the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University. In this capacity he is leading a comprehensive review of the School’s Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management Program leading into the development of a new Appl ...
turbulence @ ocean observatories - Center for Coastal Physical
... Turbulence and observatories Vertical turbulent transports of momentum, mass, chemical species and particles play major, often dominant, roles in a range of processes spanning all the sub-disciplines of oceanography – processes as fundamental and diverse as sediment resuspension, biological primary ...
... Turbulence and observatories Vertical turbulent transports of momentum, mass, chemical species and particles play major, often dominant, roles in a range of processes spanning all the sub-disciplines of oceanography – processes as fundamental and diverse as sediment resuspension, biological primary ...
2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting 27 February 2014 8:45 a.m.
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHDOAmXRw-0&feature=youtu.be). Scientists are also piloting a project using instruments ingested by sharks and other top ocean predators, like tuna, to gain new awareness into these animals’ feeding habits. The instruments, which use electrical measurements to track in ...
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHDOAmXRw-0&feature=youtu.be). Scientists are also piloting a project using instruments ingested by sharks and other top ocean predators, like tuna, to gain new awareness into these animals’ feeding habits. The instruments, which use electrical measurements to track in ...
NRDC: Cabo Pulmo - Protecting Baja California`s Thriving Coral
... Yet, stopping Hansa Urbana is not enough. Other proposals to build up the peninsula’s entire East Cape region are waiting in the wings. To ensure long-term protection for Cabo Pulmo’s coral reef, we must go even further. To this end, NRDC is assisting our partners in the creation of a long-term envi ...
... Yet, stopping Hansa Urbana is not enough. Other proposals to build up the peninsula’s entire East Cape region are waiting in the wings. To ensure long-term protection for Cabo Pulmo’s coral reef, we must go even further. To this end, NRDC is assisting our partners in the creation of a long-term envi ...
Lysogeny and Transduction in the Marine Environment
... on the same order of magnitude of that caused by protistan grazing [8]. Models of the Microbial Loop now show that viruses are an important component of this important oceanic process. Perhaps less is known concerning the genetic interaction of viruses and their hosts. In this short communication, w ...
... on the same order of magnitude of that caused by protistan grazing [8]. Models of the Microbial Loop now show that viruses are an important component of this important oceanic process. Perhaps less is known concerning the genetic interaction of viruses and their hosts. In this short communication, w ...
Unit 9 Day 1 Notes
... •Sea Level is the level of the ocean’s surfaces and has risen and fallen by response to ...
... •Sea Level is the level of the ocean’s surfaces and has risen and fallen by response to ...
Deep life: Teeming masses of organisms thrive beneath the seafloor
... process known as radiolysis. Microbes Among other things, the scien- can then consume those elements, sustists discovered how microbes in the taining themselves over time with a mud might cope. In other areas of the near-endless supply of food. “That’s the ocean, where more nutrients fall to most ex ...
... process known as radiolysis. Microbes Among other things, the scien- can then consume those elements, sustists discovered how microbes in the taining themselves over time with a mud might cope. In other areas of the near-endless supply of food. “That’s the ocean, where more nutrients fall to most ex ...
Deep-sea genetic resources - Archimer
... marine biotechnology will play a much more significant role in the 21st century than it did during the last century. Marine biotechnology is a multidisciplinary research field, which includes marine biology and chemistry, molecular biology, organic and natural product chemistry, biochemical engineer ...
... marine biotechnology will play a much more significant role in the 21st century than it did during the last century. Marine biotechnology is a multidisciplinary research field, which includes marine biology and chemistry, molecular biology, organic and natural product chemistry, biochemical engineer ...