Sentences with phrase «different coastal populations»

Plugging their data into models that account for the range of plastic waste entering the ocean via different coastal populations, the researchers arrived at their estimated 11.1 billion pieces of coral - entangling plastic.

Not exact matches

The paper doesn't attempt to estimate the growth of coastal migration, but it uses five different scenarios of population growth that predict the world will be inhabited by between 7.2 billion and 14.1 billion people.

Malin Pinsky, an ecologist at Rutgers University who studies population dynamics of coastal marine species and who was not involved in the research, described the study as significant because of its unusually large scope, as well as its focus on different fish life stages.

They can for example examine how different populations — such as skrei, Norwegian coastal cod and Baltic Sea cod — compare.

However, climate change and population growth will combine to amplify the risk from coastal windstorms and surges along the littoral, and cause very different problems inland.