Sentences with phrase «coastal ecosystem decline»

They found that all 15 human impacts increased after 1978, even though population growth remained constant, suggesting that economic growth contributed to coastal ecosystem decline.

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Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.

Reducing stressors that exacerbate ocean acidification conditions — Managers can support the resilience of reefs by reducing other stressors that affect marine ecosystems (e.g., declining water quality, coastal pollution, and overfishing of important species and functional groups, such as herbivores.

First, Caribbean - wide, communities are seeing declines in the health of coastal ecosystems and fish populations.

For example, in coastal areas, anomalous temperatures (either warm or cool) can favor one organism in an ecosystem over another, causing populations of one kind of bacteria, algae, or fish to thrive or decline.

Contrary to the reported trends in open - ocean pH, none of the available records of long - term pH change in coastal ecosystems, that we are aware of, show the decline expected from OA alone (Provoost et al. 2010; Fig. 3).