Sentences with phrase «between ocean ecosystems»

Not exact matches

«We can't protect our own ecosystem if we're not protecting Cuba's,» said Fernando Bretos Trelles, director of the Ocean Foundation's Cuba Marine Research Conservation Project, which has facilitated collaborative research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment since 1998.

We identify ocean microbial core functionality and reveal that > 73 % of its abundance is shared with the human gut microbiome despite the physicochemical differences between these two ecosystems.

Having explored extreme ecosystems on our own ocean floor — places like Lost City, where life is fuelled by nothing more than the reaction between rock and water — we know what to look for.

Electron micrograph of an Antarctic sea ice diatom, Amphiprora, with attached bacterial cells, illustrating the association between diatoms and bacteria in the Southern Ocean ecosystem

It's broadly understood that the world's oceans play a crucial role in the global - scale cycling and exchange of carbon between Earth's ecosystems and atmosphere.

He and his colleagues hope to find correlations between those circumstances and diversity, which might enable them to predict the impact of global warming and the resulting ocean acidification on marine ecosystems.

«Already, bleaching events have resulted in significant amounts of coral dying and causing impact to ocean ecosystems, but up until now it was largely unknown whether coral could recover between annual bleaching events,» Schoepf said in a statement.

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.

In sum, collaboration between the marine operations group, engineers, and scientists at MBARI has advanced methods to explore the ocean and understand the consequences of ocean change for marine organisms and ecosystems.

Life has spent about 3.8 billion years on Earth, and its ecosystems are organized through strategies based on constant trial and error, hence we can learn many lessons for the building of a new human evolutionary phase capable of ending poverty, hunger, inequality between countries, gender inequality, irresponsible consumption, unsustainable industrialization, pollution of the seas and oceans, and so on.

A complex marine ecosystem that is home to nearly one - quarter of all the marine species in the world's oceans, understanding the difference between the atolls and the reefs is quite subtle.

As the atmosphere warms, the ocean must as well, since there is a coupling effect between the two ecosystems.

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.

«Senator Cantwell is a leader who understands the connection between healthy ocean ecosystems and thriving coastal economies,» said David Wilmot, Ph.D., Ocean Champions» President and Co-Fouocean ecosystems and thriving coastal economies,» said David Wilmot, Ph.D., Ocean Champions» President and Co-FouOcean Champions» President and Co-Founder.

Marine scientist Andrew Moy at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center (ACE) in Hobart, Tasmania, and his Australian colleagues report in Nature Geoscience this week that they made this finding after comparing G. bulloides shells in ocean cores collected along the South Tasman Rise in 1995 with samples from traps collected between 1997 and 2004.

Industrial ocean fish farming is a form of aquaculture that involves the mass breeding, rearing and harvesting of finfish in net pens, pods, and cages, allowing for unrestricted exchange between the farm and the ocean ecosystem.

The former is actually much more stringent than the latter: oceans and ecosystems will continue to take up CO2 for a while after emissions stop, and therefore concentrations will drop to a level between that of today and that of preindustrial.

«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

Dr Michiel Schaeffer is a biophysicist and received his PhD in Dynamic Meteorology at University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, specialising in the interactions between atmosphere, ocean, ecosystems and society.

Further exploration of high - latitude ridges is critical for a full understanding of the global biogeography of vent ecosystems, given the potential role of the Southern Ocean as a gateway or a barrier between the major ocean ridges and back - arc baOcean as a gateway or a barrier between the major ocean ridges and back - arc baocean ridges and back - arc basins.

This refers to that part of the framework convention itself that recognizes «common but differentiated» responsibilities between rich and poor countries, and also the need to promote the sustainable management of natural carbon sinks, including «biomass, forests and oceans as well as other terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems.»

The interdependence between orcas and salmon illustrates the importance of healthy ocean ecosystems.