Sentences with phrase «coastal habitat loss»

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«We see an accelerating decline in coastal species over the last 1,000 years, resulting in the loss of biological filter capacity, nursery habitats and healthy fisheries,» notes team member Heike Latze, also of Dalhousie.

Pressed by hunting and habitat loss along its range from Florida west to coastal Texas and north to the Carolinas, the species was so depleted that by 1966 federal wildlife officials deemed it was in danger of vanishing and extended legal protections to the reptile.

According to the United Nations, as much as 40 percent of the world oceans are heavily affected by human activities, including pollution, depleted fisheries, and loss of coastal habitats.

It illustrates the pace of environmental change, including land - use change, urban growth, degradation of marine and coastal areas, altered hydrology and shrinking water bodies, loss of habitats and the impacts of climate change.

Loss of vegetated coastal habitats should lead to a decline in pH, whilst loss in the cover of corals and oyster reefs and regime shifts towards a great dominance of macroalgae may lead to increased pH (Anthony et al. 20Loss of vegetated coastal habitats should lead to a decline in pH, whilst loss in the cover of corals and oyster reefs and regime shifts towards a great dominance of macroalgae may lead to increased pH (Anthony et al. 20loss in the cover of corals and oyster reefs and regime shifts towards a great dominance of macroalgae may lead to increased pH (Anthony et al. 2011).

A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.

In recent years, intense hurricanes have caused extensive coastal habitat damage and loss in the Gulf of Mexico.

Whether it's overfishing, marine pollution, loss of coastal habitats like mangroves, or the ever growing threat of climate change and ocean acidification, there are plenty of reasons for this disturbing decline — and I suspect most TreeHugger readers are familiar with the disastrous way that human beings have managed our oceans.

In coastal areas and margins, increased thermal stratification may lead to oxygen deficiency, loss of habitats, biodiversity and distribution of species, and impact whole ecosystems (Rabalais et al., 2002).

-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and habitat loss).