Sentences with phrase «ocean ecosystem services»

Worm, B. et al (2006) Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services.

Worm, B. et al (2006) Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services.

MORE TO EXPLORE Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services.

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And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

Gaining traction are projects to quantify the value of «services» provided to us by oceans, forests and other ecosystems, determine the economic hit to a nation once they run out, and then paying would - be consumers to conserve those assets.

«Humans rely heavily on a diversity of services that are provided by ocean ecosystems, including the food we eat and industries that arise from that,» says project leader Professor Ivan Nagelkerken, from the University's Environment Institute.

People who rely on the ocean's ecosystem services — often in developing countries — are especially vulnerable.

Climate mitigation by the deep ocean may ultimately compromise many of the ecosystem services we value.

There is concern that elevated sea temperatures and ocean acidification may influence the resilience of coral reefs, inherently affecting their vital role of providing the structure which maintains ecosystem services around the world.

A variety of studies and analyses suggest that ocean acidification and warming affect important services the ocean provides to ecosystems and humankind.

Humans have a greater understanding of the surface of the moon than they do of the depths of the oceans, hinting at untouched natural resources and unrecognized ecosystem services.

BIOACID III bridges between different branches of ocean acidification research and provide an assessment of short - to long - term responses and their underlying mechanisms at the level of organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems to multiple drivers leading up to ecosystem services.

Eleven percent of the Earth's land habitats are now set aside as national parks to conserve their biodiversity and ecosystem services; in contrast, less than 0.1 % of the world's oceans are fully protected, the researchers point out.

Experiments and analyses carried out by more than 250 scientists from 20 German institutions clearly indicate that ocean acidification and warming, along with other environmental stressors, impair life in the ocean and compromise important ecosystem services it provides to humankind.

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This in turn will impact those ecosystem functions that humans rely upon to obtain goods and services from the ocean.»

Forests, grasslands, lakes, oceans, deserts, and other natural ecosystems provide a range of natural services that people have often taken for granted, even though they are vital to human welfare.

These should be developed to take account of the synergies and trade - offs in and between areas such as food, water and energy security, maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services, sustainable urbanisation, social inclusion and livelihoods, protection of seas and oceans, and sustainable consumption and production.

* Recognition of the monetary and non-monetary values of public goods such as ecosystem services, education, health and global common resources such as the oceans and the atmosphere.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

Broader economic approaches, however, can attach monetary values to non-market impacts, referred to as externalities, placing an economic value on ecosystem services like breathable air, carbon capture and storage (in forests and oceans) and usable water.

This report offers suggestions for ocean conservation that should be considered in protecting ecosystem services: how our oceans function and what they offer us.

The ocean is a food source to many and provides ecosystem services for the planet.

The document is based on a scientific paper recently published in Science (Gattuso et al., 2015), which synthesizes recent and future changes to the ocean and its ecosystems, as well as to the goods and services they provide to humans.

*** Ecosystem services: Ocean Acidification Could Cost the World its Coral... and a Trillion Dollars.